FAMOUS MOUNTAINEER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 264, 5 October 1933, Page 9

FAMOUS MOUNTAINEER.

A visitor to New Zealand is Miss K. Gardiner, of London, who arrived by tho Monowai. Miss Gardiner is already well acquainted with the Dominion, this being her fifth visit in search of beauties and thrills in mountain scenery and sport. One of the first women to climb Mount Cook, the visitor has had a great deal of experience in mountain climbing. After coming to New Zealand last ’’year with the intention of spending some time in the Southern Alps and at the Chateau, she was forced to give up her climbing because of the bad weather, and went back to Canada, where she spent the summer, climbing in the Rockies and in the mountainous regions around Lake Louise. Miss Gardiner there made several first ascents, one of Mount Foster, and one of Mount Hanbury, as well as scaling two unnamed peaks about 10,500 ft high. One of her most interesting experiences was an expedition with a pack train into the Goodshires, in the Rockies. The trip was full of interest and variety, while op-

portunities for climbing were ideal. The sqenery was remarkable for its strong, rugged grandeur, and the mode of travel, while not exactly the acme of comfort, was both amusing and practical as well as different. Miss Gardiner has climbed a littlq in Switzerland, but she confessed that she had done more skiing than climbing there. Leaving Auckland to-day, tho visitor will go to National Park, where she will spend a short time before continuing her journey to Mount Cook. On her last visit she spent much of her time at the Franz Josef Glacier. About Mount Cook the climbing seemed to be concentrated more in the one area, and was rather more difficult than in Switzerland and Canada. After a stay of six months in the Dominion Miss Gardiner will leave on March 6 for Canada, where she hopes to do some ski-ing. before returning to England.