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First to climb Aoraki/Mt Cook

First to climb Aoraki/Mt Cook

Jack Clarke (left), George Graham (centre) and Tom Fyfe (right) pose at the Hermitage the day after their successful climb of Aoraki/Mt Cook on Christmas Day 1894. In the radio recording Tony Nolan tells the story of the last stages of the climb.

Sound file: ‘Open Country programme 372 – Cook for Christmas’. Alexander Turnbull Library, OHInt-0002/336

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Photograph by George Mannering

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