ROOF OF THE ROCKIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 229, 28 September 1931, Page 10

ROOF OF THE ROCKIES

ATTACK ON MOUNT BOBSON 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, Hang and .Heinie Fuhrer, of Jasper Park Lodge, in further attempts. The party first attempted the ascent over the hitherto unconquered northwest face, which claimed the life of a noted American alpinist, Mr Newman D. Waffl, of East Orange. New 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 ominious crumbling on a treacherous ice fall. Miss Gardiner, who climbed the Bastion and Resplendent Peaks this year, says she will return and make a further attempt on Mount Robson.