Kōrero: Mountaineering

Summit of Mt Evans

Summit of Mt Evans

John Pascoe’s greatest mountaineering moment came on New Year’s Day 1934, when he was in the first party to climb Mt Evans. The difficulty of the task in its last stages is clear in this scene from 1979.

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Photograph by Eric Saggers

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

John Wilson, 'Mountaineering - The age of the amateur', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/10498/summit-of-mt-evans (accessed 30 March 2024)

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 24 Sep 2007, updated 1 Feb 2017