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Haurongo: Davidson, Mavis Melville

Mavis and Rod

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A man and a woman, holding ice-climbing pickaxes, stand on a rocky alpine slope with a mountain and hut in the background.

Mavis Davidson and Rod Hewitt, standing below Ball Hutt in the Southern Alps. The pair climbed extensively in the area 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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by Hap Ashurst

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Rebekah White. 'Davidson, Mavis Melville', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/47641/mavis-and-rod (accessed 4 June 2026).