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Peter Graham with clients

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Peter Graham with clients

Peter Graham (right) leads a party of clients who include Algernon Charles Gifford, a science teacher at Wellington College and amateur astronomer. They are on the Tasman Glacier at the bottom of the Hochstetter icefall, in January 1907.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, A. C. Gifford Collection

Reference: 1/2-060511; G

by Algernon Charles Gifford

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John Wilson, Mountaineering – Guided climbing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10489/peter-graham-with-clients (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.