Conquered
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Ball’s Pyramid Conquered
Four Sydney climbers have become the first men to reach the top of Ball’s Pyramid, the rugged 1,843 ft peak 11 miles from Lord Howe Island.
The climbers are Bryden Allen, David Witham, John Davis, and Jack Petigrew, who reached the summit on February 14. They were members of an expedition sponsored by the “Sydney Morning Herald”.
The four climbers drank a bottle of champagne at the summit to celebrate their suc cess and built a large cairn in which they placed a message.
The expedition achieved what eight previous climbing expedi tions to Ball’s Pyramid had failed to do.