MT. TASMAN CONQUERED.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13644, 8 February 1913, Page 4

MT. TASMAN CONQUERED.

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Wellington, Fob. 7

.Mr.Saih'u^l iSirner wires as follows to tlie Press Association:—"Wo' si\ceeßSfully climbed Mt. Tasman. Ite height is not-820 'feet less than Mt. Cook. It is New Zealand's second highest mountain—l 1,4.75 feet. W:o had 4000 feet of step cutting, whicli constitutes a record on any mountain in the world. My gurdefl were Peter Graham and David Thomson, who did splendid work."