Freda Du Faur is pictured with her favourite guides, Alexander and Peter Graham, with whom she summited Mount Cook. As one of a minority of mountain visitors interested in high alpine climbing, Du Faur sometimes resented the ‘tourists’ who booked up the guides for glacier excursions, delaying her own expeditions. She viewed proposed improvements at the Hermitage with dismay, fearing it would become a “fashionable tourist resort”, with her beloved mountain solitudes over-run by “civilization”— exactly the image promoted by the Tourist Department in the 1960s (below). 