Saturday 17th.

The day dawned much as before. The weather, however, was worse. The party decided to climb Mount Jumbo (6,200ft.) which was located somewhere in the mist behind and considerably above the Jumboland Hut. They followed a cleared stream bed up, and at the top of the clearing a ridge through open beech. The route posed one or two complications, mainly due to members' insist ence on walking on top of instead of through sub-alpine scrub. Several rocky gullies were traversed. A saddle was reached where the party was greeted by a sodden gale-force wind. The Wellingtonians immediately felt at home and all sat down and page break had lunch. Five then left the saddle to same the top. Everything was shrouded in mist. Three got there after a scramble over loose rock and occasional drifts of snow. At the top were an iron peg, more loose snow and lots more mist. The conquerers descended, found the two almost-conquerers and returned to Neil Mad docks at e saddle who had chose the much safer pastime of trying to spot the Albertburn valley through the occasional breaks in the mist. Then all descended to Jumbo land Hut, food and light literature. Mr Burgess claimed he read "Lolita" from cover [unclear: cover] night.