In the 1940s and 1950s Ross Digby Gore drew a series of comics that recounted episodes from New Zealand history. This strip charts Australian woman Freda Du Faur's historic and controversial ascent of Aoraki/Mt Cook in 1910. She was the first woman to climb the mountain. Click on the buttons to view the images.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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B-140-001
Ink drawing by Ross Digby Gore
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