Climbing Attempt

Ball's Pyramid Defies Another Climbing Attempt

A party of nine Sydney Uni

versity students, who attempted

to climb Ball’s Pyramid in late

November-early December, got

within about 600 ft of the top, and then gave up because of

crumbly rock and overhanging

cliff faces.

BALL’S PYRAMID is a steep volcanic peak which rises from the sea about 10 miles south-east of Lord Howe Island. It is 1,843 ft high.

Every attempt so far to climb it has failed, and the leader of the latest expedition, 22-year-old Richard Higgins, believes that only climbers with international experience are likely to succeed.

Higgins and two other members of his party, David Roots, 32, and David Lambeth, 24, tried to climb the peak last May and got within 500 ft of the top on the south-eastern side.