Everest Expedition Seat - Dawson Falls, Egmont National Park - 1956

This seat on the track from Dawson Falls Tourist Lodge to Hooker Shelter commemorates the ascent of Everest in 1953. A few weeks after the successful ascent, the Mt. Egmont Alpine Club committee agreed to mark the event by erecting a seat in the Dawson Falls area. However, it wasn't until April 1956 that the club held a working bee to transport the concrete blocks, shingle and cement up to the chosen site, at the three-quarter mile peg on the main track above Dawson Falls. This was followed a week later by a visit from block-laying and rough-casting experts to complete the job. 

In 2004 the seat was completely demolished and re-built by Hawera's Mt Egmont Alpine Club.

Text of Plaque reads:

Rest and Remember

The great mountaineering feats

of the men of the

Mt Everest Expedition

led by Sir John Hunt

and particularly of

Sir Edmund Hillary

and Tensing Norgay

who reached the summit on May 29th 1953

Erected by the Mt Egmont Alpine Club