Ads
related to: aoraki mount cook first ascent bike seat for sale
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
During the same expedition Zurbriggen also made the first ascent of Tupungato with Englishman Stuart Vines. [1] The Zurbriggen Ridge on Aoraki / Mount Cook in New Zealand is named after him. On 14 March 1895, Zurbriggen made the first ascent of the ridge, the second ascent of the mountain and its first solo ascent.
Mount Cook Village, officially Aoraki / Mount Cook, [a] is located within New Zealand's Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park at the end of State Highway 80, only 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) [3] south of the summit of the country's highest mountain, also called Aoraki / Mount Cook, in the Southern Alps.
He led the first ascent of Aoraki / Mount Cook (the highest mountain in New Zealand) on 25 December 1894, which included Jack Clarke and George Graham. [2] Following the first Aoraki ascent Fyfe, who was introduced to climbing by Jack Adamson, went on to become the first appointed Chief Guide at the Hermitage Hotel at Mount Cook Village. [3]
The first Europeans who may have seen Aoraki / Mount Cook were members of Abel Tasman's crew, who saw a "large land uplifted high" (probably some part of the Southern Alps) while off the west coast of the South Island, just north of present-day Greymouth [16] [17] on 13 December 1642 during Tasman's first Pacific voyage.
In December 1910, Freda Du Faur became the first woman to climb Aoraki / Mount Cook, [128] and in 1913 her climbing party made the first ascents of the Footstool and Mount Sefton. Mountaineering on the Aoraki / Mount Cook massif is a hazardous activity. [129] In 1982, Mark Inglis and his climbing partner were trapped in a snow cave for two ...
Aoraki/Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain and Aoraki/Mount Cook village lie within the park. The area was gazetted as a national park in October 1953 and consists of reserves that were established as early as 1887 to protect the area's significant vegetation and landscape.