LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CLIMBING PARTY ON THE TASMAN GLACIER[Frontispiece]
HOOKER VALLEY AND MOUNT SEFTON FROM GOVERNOR’S CAMPTo face page[8]
AORANGI: MOUNT COOK AND THE HOOKER GLACIER”[10]
MOUNT TASMAN (11,475 FEET) AND HOCHSTETTER ICE-FALL”[28]
MOUNT COOK AND THE HERMITAGE”[46]
CROSSING THE HOOKER RIVER”[48]
AORANGI FROM THE BALL GLACIER”[50]
ICE CAVE, TASMAN GLACIER”[52]
MOUNT DE LA BÊCHE (10,021 FEET) FROM THE TASMAN GLACIER”[54]
PEAKS ON MALTE BRUN”[58]
THE TASMAN GLACIER”[66]
MOUNTAIN LILIES (Ranunculus Lyallii)”[86]
LOOKING ACROSS THE MURCHISON GLACIER”[90]
AORANGI FROM THE TASMAN GLACIER”[90]
THE MURCHISON GLACIER”[92]
AORANGI: THE HIGHEST PEAK”[100]
IN THE ICE-FALL OF THE ONSLOW GLACIER”[120]
THE SURFACE OF A GLACIER”[128]
MAPAt end

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY

The New Zealand Alps and their glaciers

It is unnecessary for me in these days of universal education and enlightenment to describe the geographical position of New Zealand, the ‘Britain of the South,’ and the future playground of Australasia.