Her climbing and exploration of this remote area would all have been carried out in less suitable mountaineering attire as was common in the day of an ankle length skirt, bodice long sleeve shirt and stout boots.
Their honeymoon consisted of exploring and camping on Mount Roland in a tent for six weeks enjoying Kangaroo tail soup, foraging in the flora and enduring the elements including blizzard conditions.
[3] In 1911, her love for the area lead Cowle to purchase 200 acres of Crown Land at Cradle Mountain[4] on which later Gustav would build their chalet, "Waldheim".
Inspired by treks the couple did throughout the area and including Mt Buffalo in Victoria they wanted to build a chalet to live in and host naturalists, botanists and tourists to help realize their original vision.
Promotion of the black and white images and Gustav's ongoing lobbying in Hobart, finally resulted in the area being declared a reserve in 1922, which is now known as the Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park.