In late March 1887, (to the fury of local historians, the exact date was never recorded!), a 19 year old local from Hawera became the first woman to climb Mount Egmont’s subsidiary peak. In a party of six ladies and nine gentlemen, Fanny Fantham reached the mountain on horseback. Thomas Dawson led the group. A year before he had "discovered" Dawson Falls by nearly falling over them while travelling alone through the bush. Fanny and five gents started up the 1962 metre peak that the local Maori called Panitahi. The scrambling climb through scoria to the big bare plateau took her six hours. One of the party pointed out that the peak did not have a European name, Fantham’s Peak was decided on. But on that day in 1887 she decided that she’d had enough. She turned down the chance to carry on to the main summit and become one of the first group of Europeans to see Lake Dive, nestled against the weird Lava swellings of The Beehives. Although she lived for another 61 years, she never set laced boot on Mount Egmont ever again.