Rock bivouac
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Rock bivouac
Although early mountaineers usually carried tents, they sometimes slept in rock bivouacs. This one at De la Bêche corner was used by an early climber, H. M. Hamilton, as a sick room when he fell ill on an expedition in 1892.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/4-017480
Photograph by Malcolm Ross
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
