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Mavis Davidson and Rod Hewitt

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Mavis Davidson and Rod Hewitt

Mavis Davidson was one of a number of significant women climbers in the 1950s. She is standing below Ball Hut with Rod Hewitt. The pair climbed extensively in the Southern Alps to gain material for a guidebook to the Aoraki/Mt Cook alpine region and a general book on New Zealand mountains.

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John Wilson, Mountaineering – New equipment and new people, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11316/mavis-davidson-and-rod-hewitt (accessed 25 June 2026).

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