SUCCESSFUL ASCENT
SECOND HIGHEST PEAK FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS £by telegraph —PRESS association] TIMARTJ, Tuesday For the first time in two years Mount Tasman, the second highest peak in New Zealand, was climbed on Sunday by Miss C. Irving, of Albury, South Canterbury, with Guides M. Bowie and S. Brookes, of the Hermitage. Syme's Kidge was climbed for the third time and for the first time was used for the descent.
Miss Irving is the second woman to reach the summit by the route from the east side since 1914, and no other party including a woman has used Syme's route, a slender ridge of ice and snow rising at a uniformly steep angle direct to the north shoulder from the Linda Plateau. Tlio climb was made during the longest spell of fine weather above 7000 ft. this season, after months of summer snowfalls on the high mountains. Miss Irving was able to take advantage of the opportunity to climb while the ico was unusually unbroken. The Hermitage guides state that it is difficult to remember a more continuously bad climbing season, but conditions at the moment are ideal.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23284, 1 March 1939, Page 10
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