Performance shots from Taking the High Ground at BATS Theatre.
A new play about Freda du Faur, the first woman to scale Aoraki/Mount Cook in 1910, and Lydia Bradey, the first woman to scale Mount Everest solo and without oxygen in 1988.
Its premiere season took place at BATS theatre Wellington December 5-9, 2017.
Simon Paenga and Isobel MacKinnon rehearsing Taking the High Ground
Lydia Bradey after she climbed Mount Everest