Shark's Teeth Peaks.

Fantastic as well as grim is the face of some of these mighty mountain walls. Never can one forget the sunset glow on the Cecil Peaks, the Bayonet Peaks; Mt. Walter. But the picture to remember above all others is that of those shark's teeth peaks that serrate the grand front of the Remarkables. Carved sharply against the sky this quite monstrous sierra rises from one dizzy pinnacle to another until it culminates in the Double Cone, twin crags of saw-edged rock very nearly 7,900 feet high—6,900 feet above the lake. page 40 It is a vast jumble of sharp ridges and avalanche-race tracks, those deeply-cut couloirs that winter fills with deep drifts of snow. Kopuwai, the Maoris called this strangely carved range, and there is a dim old legend about a fearful ogre that lived in a cave, one of whose mighty deeds was drinking dry one day—it must have been a mighty hot summer—the swift-flowing Kawarau and the Matau—the Clutha, which it feeds. Kopuwai would be an extremely welcome demon to-day from the gold-winning point of view.