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Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 :A climb up Mount Holdsworth and the mountains of the Volcanic Plateau
- Date
- 1911
- By
- Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918; Daniell, Charles Edward, 1856-1939
- Reference
- PA1-o-188
- Description
Views of the Mangatarera Stream and Mount Holdsworth opens a record of a climb to the summit of Holdsworth. The party consists of six women and about five men. There are views of the stream and the swing bridge leading to the Holdsworth track; several shots of the Mountain House with the climbing party arranged along the veranda, and Mr McGregor's party who had arrived on horseback to fix the water tank; the climbing party grouped in the bush on the way up the mountain and on the open alpine ridges; a surveyors tent in the alpine tussock; the party eating beside the Holdsworth Trig; views of the Tararua Ranges from the summit of Mount Holdsworth.
Interspersed among the main image groups are photographs of a trip to Rotorua. This involved a group of people in two motor cars. There are images of the Hamurana Stream and Springs at Rotorua, and of children diving for pennies at Whakarewarewa.
Views of mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, the Mangaehuehu Stream, the Crater Lake and the crater on Ngauruhoe, and mountaineers crossing the ice field on Ruapehu and climbing Ngauruhoe. There is a view of Matterhorn Peak the name of which was changed to Girdlestone Peak in 1922.
Two images of a surveyors' camp in the Waimarino Bush.
The Tern Arch and Little Hawke's Crag on the Buller Gorge road.
A view of Lake Tarawerea from the top of Mount Tarawera.
The final photograph is a view along the beach to Pencarrow Head, Wellington.
Pasted inside the front cover is a cutting from `The Weekly News', Wednesday, December 26, 1945, entitled `New Zealand's highest memorial' by JWG, describing the renaming in 1922, of Matterhorn Peak (Tongariro National Park) to Girdlestone Peak in honour of Hubert Earle Girdlestone after he was killed in action in August 1918.
Source of title - Title supplied by Library
Inscriptions: Album page - To Mr and Mrs Daniell with kindest recollections from a very old friend, Hugh Girdlestone, March 1911
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with brownish green cover, 25 x 20 cm
Provenance: The album had been presented to Daniell in March 1911 by Hubert Girdlestone.
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Tramping party having lunch at Mt Holdsworth trig, Tararua Ranges
Date: 1911
From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 :A climb up Mount Holdsworth and the mountains of the Volcanic Plateau
Reference: PA1-o-188-08-3
Description: Tramping party having lunch at Mt Holdsworth trig, Tararua Ranges. Six women and three men are seated in front of a canvas windbreak with the trig behind them. Photograph taken 1911 by Hubert Earle Girdlestone. Inscriptions: Album page - right of image - The Summit at last. Hurrah for Lunch; Album page - beneath image - Mt Holdsworth Trig 4835' Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6.8 x 9.2 cm, on album page
Surveyor's bivouac, Mt Holdsworth, Tararua Ranges
Date: 1911
From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 :A climb up Mount Holdsworth and the mountains of the Volcanic Plateau
Reference: PA1-o-188-07-2
Description: Tramper seated in front of a surveyor's bivouac on Mt Holdsworth, Tararua Ranges. Photograph taken 1911 by Hubert Earle Girdlestone. Inscriptions: Album page - left of image - The Surveyors Bivouac 4420 feet Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6.8 x 9.2 cm, on album page
View of Mount Ruapehu from Mount Hauhungatahi, Tongariro National Park
Date: 1911
From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 :A climb up Mount Holdsworth and the mountains of the Volcanic Plateau
Reference: PA1-o-188-18
Description: View of Mount Ruapehu from Mount Hauhungatahi photographed by Hubert Earle Girdlestone in 1911 Published in the New Zealand Free Lance 20 May 1936. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 14.3 x 10.3 cm