Experience Of Members

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29004, 19 September 1959, Page 14

Experience Of Members

All the members of the New Zealand Alpine Club’s expedition to Antarctica have a common interest in mountaineering, most having climbed extensively in the Southern Alps and some overseas in the Himalayas and European Alps.

Mr R. W. Cawley, leader of the expedition, lives in Christchurch, and has climbed in the Southern Alps for 15 seasons, and has also done much ski-ing on the Craigieburn range as a member of the Craigieburn Valley Ski Club. Mr Cawley is a past-chairman of the Canterbury-Westland section of the New Zealand Alpine Club. Mr P. L. M. Bain, who lived in Christchurch before taking a teaching position at Reefton, has climbed extensively in the Arrowsmith and Mount Cook areas of the Southern Alps and also in Otago. He has been a prominent member of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club, and was a member of the club’s 1955 overseas expedition which attempted Mount Masherbrum in the Karakoram Himalayas. Mr M. R. Bolt, of Alexander, will be the senior surveyor of the party. He has climbed in the Mount Cook and Godley areas of the Southern Alps, and also in parts of Westland. He has had considerable experience in the use of snow caves on the Tasman and Fox Glaciers. Dr. R. L. Oliver, who formerly lived in Wellington, will be the senior geologist of the party. He gained his doctorate in geology at Cambridge University, and while in England climbed in the Swiss, Austrian, and Italian Alps, and the Spanish Pyrenees, as well as in Wales and Scotland. He has been a field geologist in Southern Venezuela and has climbed in the Karakoram Himalayas, as well as doing geological survey work in west Pakistan. Dr. Oliver has also been on the staff of the New Zealand Geological Survey and has carried out geological work on Campbell Island. Mr C. H. Tyndale-Biscoe comes from Nelson, and is at present in the zoological department of the University of Western Australia. Perth, where he is engaged in research on the wallaby pest. He has climbed in the Mount Cook area, and completed a grand traverse of Mount Cook in 1952 He has also been on mountaineering expeditions to the Karakoram Himalayas and the Hindu Kush mountains in west Pakistan. Mr B. J. McGlinchy lives at Sumner, and is an electrical engineering student at Canterbury University, where he is captain of the University Tramping Club. He has climbed extensively in the Canterbury ranges. Mr N. C. Cooper comes from Palmerston North, and is studying for a civil engineering degree at Canterbury University. He has climbed in the Rakaia and Mount Cook areas of the Southern AlpsMr B. L. Smith, who lives at Hornby, is an agricultural degree student at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln. He has climbed in the Arrowsmith and Mount Cook areas of the Southern Alps. *?,