A CLIMBER IN NEW ZEALAND

“The superiority of the mountains to the lowlands is as immeasurable as the richness of a painted window matched with a white one, or the wealth of a museum compared with that of a small furnished chamber.”

Ruskin.

“The king of day lingers lovingly about his white throne in the Southern Alps, and from there he burns his brilliant fires in the heavens above and along the level world below.”

Rutherford Waddell.

Mount Cook.

A CLIMBER

NEW ZEALAND

MALCOLM ROSS, A.C., F.R.G.S.

FORMERLY VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NEW ZEALAND ALPINE CLUB

AUTHOR OF “AORANGI”, “IN TUHOE LAND”, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR

LONDON

EDWARD ARNOLD

1914

MY WIFE

WHO IN CAMP AND BIVOUAC

REJOICED WITH US IN VICTORY

AND CHEERED US IN DEFEAT