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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.
After several attempts, the first successful ascent of Aoraki / Mount Cook was made on Christmas Day 1894, by Tom Fyfe, Jack Clarke, and George Graham. [ 127 ] 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.
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.
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.
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand This page was last edited on 20 April 2020, at 08:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...