Guided along the Hillary Ridge

January 2013

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January 2013

Climbing the exposed, knife-edged Hillary Ridge. Photo: Marty Schmidt
Pat Deavoll knocks off a long held ambition to climb the Hillary Ridge and makes a sweet earner out of it to boot In my 35 year climbing career I’d never climbed the Hillary (South) Ridge of Aoraki/Mt Cook. I had tried sporadically over the years to arrange a climbing partner and a spell off […]
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