A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . LOWER END, OTIRA CORGE. ^*^?!^. «J^ LAKE WANAKA HOKITIKA TO MOUNT COOK 109 the day and night. One never tired of watching the quick-change turns, if one may so term the varyingaspects of Mount Sefton, brought about by the diversity ofatmospheric conditions. Its summit might be invisible fora time, owing to a passing cloud; then the next momentit would emerge in a rosy garment; or possibly presenta hard and white outline against a metallic sky, but in allits multifarious aspects, it was never anything short ofbeautiful. The Tasman Glacier, one of t
A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . LOWER END, OTIRA CORGE. ^*^?!^. «J^ LAKE WANAKA HOKITIKA TO MOUNT COOK 109 the day and night. One never tired of watching the quick-change turns, if one may so term the varyingaspects of Mount Sefton, brought about by the diversity ofatmospheric conditions. Its summit might be invisible fora time, owing to a passing cloud; then the next momentit would emerge in a rosy garment; or possibly presenta hard and white outline against a metallic sky, but in allits multifarious aspects, it was never anything short ofbeautiful. The Tasman Glacier, one of the largest outside thePolar seas, is like a colossal cascade of ice, more than amile wide. It is a beautiful sight, and one that can be ob-tained fairly easily. From the Ball Hut, the first resting-place, one can proceed the next day up and across thegentle slope of ice for another eight miles to the MakeBrun Hut. The Hooker Valley and Glacier can be explored, but ofcourse the one crowning feat of all is the ascent of MountCook. Government guides are in readiness t
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