Transcriber’s Notes
Hyphenation has been standardised.
Note: The name Mattias (under Zurbriggen) in the index, is not mentioned anywhere in the project exceptin the index as follows:
Mattias, 18, 22, 53, 160, 295.
Zurbriggen’s christian name was Mattias.
Changes made are noted at the end of the book.
A CLIMBER IN NEW ZEALAND
“The superiority of the mountains to the lowlands is as immeasurable as the richness of a painted window matched with a white one, or the wealth of a museum compared with that of a small furnished chamber.”
Ruskin.
“The king of day lingers lovingly about his white throne in the Southern Alps, and from there he burns his brilliant fires in the heavens above and along the level world below.”
Rutherford Waddell.
Mount Cook.
A CLIMBER
IN
NEW ZEALAND
BY
MALCOLM ROSS, A.C., F.R.G.S.
FORMERLY VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NEW ZEALAND ALPINE CLUB
AUTHOR OF “AORANGI”, “IN TUHOE LAND”, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR
LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
1914
[All Rights Reserved]
TO
MY WIFE
WHO IN CAMP AND BIVOUAC
REJOICED WITH US IN VICTORY
AND CHEERED US IN DEFEAT
PREFACE
Some of the material contained in the following pagesappeared in the London Times. My thanks are dueto the manager for allowing me to republish it.Articles that have appeared in the Alpine Journaland in some of the leading Australian and NewZealand newspapers—notably the Otago Daily Times,the Christchurch Press, the Wellington Post, theNew Zealand Times, the New Zealand Herald, theMelbourne Age, and the Australasian—have also beenused. These articles have all been re-written or revised.I am indebted to Dr. Teichelman for the interestingillustration facing page 296, and to the Otago Witnessfor the photograph of the Rev. Mr. Green, Boss, andKaufmann. The other illustrations are from my ownphotographs. My thanks are also due to Mr. A. L.Mumm, late Secretary of the Alpine Club, and authorof Five Months in the Himalaya, for the s