“On my first trip to the mountain with Dr. Hewitt [ARF President], I remember him pointing out a couple of
plant fossils just below the
snow and ice on the east side of the Ahora
Gorge. Botany studies on the mountain was a passion with him and he would stop constantly looking
for any thing that resembled
plant life. He mentioned that on some
of his previous trips on the mountain he had seen other plant fossils as well as a fish fossil up near the
edge of the glacier.”