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Historic HB: The battle to climb Mount Ruapehu


Historic HB: The battle to climb Mount Ruapehu
12 Mar, 2021 02:43 PM
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Lydia Birch, the first European woman to ascend Mount Ruapehu on March 9, 1881. Credit: Patricia Keiller
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Michael Fowler
The past week marked International Women s Day on March 8 and the next day the first ascent of the 2797m Mount Ruapehu by a European woman – Lydia Birch, 140 years ago on
March 9, 1881.
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Lydia Etheldreda Larden was born in England in 1853, and married in England her cousin, William John Birch in 1874.
William brought his new bride to New Zealand to Hawke s Bay to the remote Erewhon Station, a 115,100 acre (46,579ha) property in the Inland Patea (then part of Hawke s Bay province) he farmed with his brother Azim. ....

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