Chapter I. 



the Hora and fainia of tlie mountain district. Like Scott Elliot, 

 he noted traces of ulacial action in the Mobukii Valley, ai)oiit 

 3,000 feet below the point wliere is now the snout of the 

 glacier. Like all Ijis predecessors, he complains of an extra- 

 ordinary persistence of bad weather. 



A CAMP. 



Thus in tlie year 1900 alone the Mo])uku Valley had l)een 

 explored by four separate parties. 



In Au trust of the following year, W. H. Wylde and Ward 

 went up the valley and appear to have reached the ridge on the 

 top of the glacier at the same altitude wliieli ^\•as reached by 

 Moore, al)out 15,000 feet. During the two following years 

 Ave have no further reports of the Mobuku Valley until the 

 expedition of the liev. A. B. Fisher, who, with his wife, in 

 January, lUO:}, ai-rived at the point wliieli had l)eeii reached by 

 Sii- Han-v Johnston. 



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