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Summit of Mt Evans

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Summit of Mt Evans

John Pascoe’s greatest mountaineering moment came on New Year’s Day 1934, when he was in the first party to climb Mt Evans. The difficulty of the task in its last stages is clear in this scene from 1979.

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John Wilson, Mountaineering – The age of the amateur, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10498/summit-of-mt-evans (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.