ROOF OF THE ROCKIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

ROOF OF THE ROCKIES.

ATTACK ON MOUNT ROBSON. Mount Robson. the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, has successfully defied the efforts of Miss Kate Gardiner, of Warrington, England, to climb it. Miss Gardiner, a member of a famous mountaineering family, has gained a wealth of alpine experience in Canada and in New Zealand. She has many first ascents to her credit, and hoped to add Mount Robson to her list of conquests. Ice and snow conditions, however, were so bad that she was unwilling to risk the lives of her two Swiss guides, Hans and Heinie Fuhrer, of Jasper Park Lodge, in further attempts. The party first attempted the ascent over the hitherto unconqucred north-west face, which claimed the life of a noted American alpinist, Mr. Newman t). Waffl, of East Orange, Now Jersey, last season. They reached. 12.000 ft. before they were forced to turn back by the imminent, danger of avalanches. They established a new camp and tried the south-west face twice before they were halted by ominous crumbling on a treacherous ice fall. Miss Gardiner, who climbed the Bastion and Resplendent Peaks this year, pays she. will return and make a further attempt on Mount Robson.