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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 ...
On 14 March 1895, Zurbriggen made the first ascent of the ridge, the second ascent of the mountain and its first solo ascent. He missed the honour of claiming the first ascent of Mount Cook, which was achieved a few months earlier, on Christmas Day 1894 by a party of New Zealanders who were determined to prevent the first ascent being credited ...
The mountain's toponym may have been a humorous invention of surveyor Edward Sealy, originating from a remark sometime before 1871 that one might sit on Mount Sefton with one's feet on the footstool. [3] The first ascent of the summit was made in 1894 by Tom Fyfe and George Graham. [4]
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.
Thomas Camperdown Fyfe (23 June 1870 in Timaru – 1947 in Hastings) [1] was a self-taught New Zealand mountaineer from Timaru.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]
Police believe the two Americans and one Canadian fall while crossing a ridge on Aoraki Mt Cook. Three climbers feared dead on New Zealand's tallest mountain Skip to main content