Known locally as "Suwemalla," Ghost Mountain rises to a height of 3,080 metres (10,100 ft).
Members of the 2nd Battalion, 126th Regiment, 32nd Red Arrow Division were ordered to flank the Japanese in a 130 miles (209 km) march on foot across the Owen Stanley Range, including crossing near Ghost Mountain, considerably east of the more well-known Kokoda Track.
As a rule, the only way the troops could get up these ridges, which were steeper than along the Kokoda Trail, was either on hands and knees, or by cutting steps into them with ax and machete.
To rest, the men simply leaned forward, holding on to vines and roots in order to keep themselves from slipping down the mountainside.
[1]Ghost Mountain earned its name from the eerie phosphorescent glow given off at night by moss-covered trees in the forests on its slopes.