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The conquest of Mount Cook and other climbs : an account of four seasons’ mountaineering on the Southern Alps of New Zealand

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Page
Chapter I
A Rèsumè of Mountaineering in the Mount Cook District Between 1862 And 1909 		17
Chapter II
Reasons for taking up Mountaineering 		25
Chapter III
The Hermitage Again
The journey to the Hermitage—Inconvenience of being a woman pioneer 		31
Chapter IV
Mount Sealy and the Nun's Veil 		38
Chapter V
Mount Malte Brun and the Minarets 		47
Chapter VI
Mount Cook
Plans for the Ascent of Mount Cook—The Attempt and Failure 		63
Chapter VII
Westland
The Copland Pass—Waiho Gorge, and the Franz Josef Glacier 		73 page x
Chapter VIII
Getting into Training
Mount Annette—The Ball Pass—A Virgin Peak—Harpies' Saddle —Mount Wakefield 		87
Chapter IX
The Ascent of Mount Cook 		99
Chapter X
The Ascent of Mount De la Bêche 		112
Chapter XI
A Great Ice Peak
The Ascent of the Silberhorn, and Defeat on Mount Tasman 		121
Chapter XII
Three Ascents
An Attempt to cross Graham's Saddle—The Ascents of Mount Green, Mount Walter, and Mount Chudleigh 		133
Chapter XIII
Two Virgin Peaks
Return to the Hermitage, 1912—Ascent of a Virgin Peak north of the Footstool—Defeat on a Virgin Peak immediately south of Mount Cook 		148
Chapter XIV
A Difficult Climb
A Virgin Peak north of the Copland Pass—The First Ascent of Sebastopol by the Eastern face 		158
Chapter XV
The Ascent of Mount Tasman 		168
Chapter XVI
Mount Dampier and Mount Lendenfeld 		176 page xi
Chapter XVII
On the Mount Cook Range
The Ascent of the Virgin Peak south of Nazomi 		191
Chapter XVIII
The First Complete Traverse of Mount Cook 		196
Chapter XIX
The Hermitage Flood 		209
Chapter XX
A Trial Climb
Mount Sefton from Tuckett's Col—Over the Copland Pass to Welcome Flats 		216
Chapter XXI
The First Traverse of Mount Sefton 		224
Chapter XXII
Good-bye to New Zealand
The Ascents of Mount Cadogan and Aiguille Rouge—Defeat on Mount Elie de Beaumont—A Second Flood 		238
Index 247
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