TWO MOUNTAINS CLIMBED.
SOUTHERN ALPS ASCENTS. SUCCESS OF ENGLISHWOMAN. v, [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] WAIHO GORGE. Thursday. Miss K. Gardiner, of England, and Messrs. Frank Alack and T. Sheeran, Franz Josef Glacier guides, were successful in making the ascent of Glacier Peak, 10,000 ft., and Douglas Peak, 10,300 ft., last week. The ascent was made from the new hut on the Chancellor Ridge. The route followed was across the Fox Glacier neve and up the west snow face of .Glacier Peak, thence along the main divide and north-west arrete to the summit of Douglas Peak. This is only the second time that Douglas Peak has been ascended, and Miss Gardiner is the first woman to reach the summit. The first ascent of these two mountains was made by Dr. E. Teichelmann, the Rev. H. E. Newton and Mr. Alex. Graham fiom a bivouac on Pioneer Ridge at the head of the Fox Glacier in February, 1907.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20867, 8 May 1931, Page 10
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