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New Zealand has a long tradition of women mountaineers. One woman who climbed in the 1920s was Katie Gardiner, shown here with a guide, Vic Williams, approaching the summit of Mt Silberhorn in 1929.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Canterbury Museum, W. A. Kennedy Collection
Reference: 1975.203.45
by H. E. L. Porter
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