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Although early mountaineers usually carried tents, they sometimes slept in rock bivouacs. This one at De la Bêche corner was used by an early climber, H. M. Hamilton, as a sick room when he fell ill on an expedition in 1892.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Malcolm Ross Collection
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