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
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