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1. Climbing photographs collected by Mick Bowie (deconstructed album) - Ashurst/Langton Collection

   A collection of 176 prints, previously removed from an album, that were taken or collected by Aoraki Mount Cook Hermitage guide Mick Bowie (1901-1982), dating from circa 1929 to 1936. The prints appear to be images taken during some of Bowie's early years of guiding and climbing around Aoraki Mount Cook National Park (and Westland Tai Poutini National Park). They feature many landscape images, often with climbers (a number featuring a female c...

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2. Kate Gardiner and Vic Williams at the Haast Hut

   Climber Kate Gardiner and guide Vic Williams posed outside the King Memorial Hut, with Mt Haidinger in the background, during Gardiner's climb of Aoraki Mount Cook on 6 January 1929. Handwritten notes on the verso read: "Haast Hut Mt Haidinger Gardiner", and "Haast Hut Mt Cook". This was the first hut on the site built in 1915, known as the King Memorial Hut. It was turned 90 degrees when the snow build up threated to collapse the long (rea...

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. Robert Cole : personal, travel, and alpine album

   An album of personal, travel, and alpine photography that belonged to Robe Cole of Timaru. The prints are often identified as (from top left, clockwise unless otherwise noted): - leaf #1 [1 print]: Mt Rolleston Feb-35; West Coast scenes: - leaf #2 [4 prints]: c.1934 Fox's Peak; Lower left: A.J. Rae; Lower right: D Proctor, Frank Newmarch; - leaf #2, verso [4 prints]: Mt Fox 193[blank]; Lower right: F Newmar[ch?]; - leaf #3 [5 prints]: F...

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. The second Haast hut about 1950 - Ashurst/Langton Collection

   An undated photograph identified on the verso as the second Haast Hut, on the Haast Ridge in the Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, pictured about 1950. Taken from above the hut, looking down to the hut and the valley below. An unidentified person can be seen seated on the low rock wall in front of the hut. Also bears the stamp of Hap Ashurst on the verso.

   Record Type: Photo