Mount Earnslaw
| Mount Earnslaw (Pikirakatahi) | ||
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 Mount Earnslaw, painting by John Turnbull Thomson (1883) |
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| height | 2819 m | |
| location | South Island , New Zealand | |
| Mountains | Forbes Range , Southern Alps | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| First ascent | Harry Birley 1890. | |
The Mount Earnslaw ( Māori Pikirakatahi ) is a 2819 m high mountain on the South Island of New Zealand .
history
Origin of the name
The mountain was named by surveyor John Turnbull Thomson after his grandfather's farm in the village of Earnslaw (formerly Herneslawe) in Eccles Parish in Berwickshire . The mountain is the namesake of the TSS Earnslaw , the steamship on Lake Wakatipu .
First ascent
Reverend WS Green, who had actually come to New Zealand to climb the Aoraki / Mount Cook , made a first attempt at ascent with the guides Emil Boss and Ulrich Kaufmann in March 1882, but transport and weather problems forced them to turn back at an altitude of 1500 m. The attempt at Mount Cook was also unsuccessful.
After several unsuccessful attempts, Glenorchy-born guide Harry Birley reached the eastern summit of Mt. Earnslaw in 1890. As evidence, he left a bent shilling in an empty Irish Moss bottle in a pile of stones.
The higher western summit was first climbed in 1914 by HF Wright and J. Robertson.
Location and surroundings
The mountain is at the southern end of the Forbes Range in New Zealand's Southern Alps . It is part of Mount Aspiring National Park and is 25 kilometers north of the Glenorchy settlement at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu . Administratively it is part of the Otago region .
Movie
Mount Earnslaw and its surroundings were used as the backdrop for the film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring .
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Mount Earnslaw at Summitpost.org, accessed March 30, 2013
- ↑ Glenorchy . In: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand . Otago and Southland Provincial District - Volume IV . Cyclopedia Company Ltd , Christchurch 1905 (English, online [accessed February 9, 2017]).
- ^ FWG Miller: Golden Days of Lake County. Whitcomb and Toombes 1949. pp. 343-345