SAFE CLIMBING
Course For Scouts At Lake Lyndon Seventy-five scouts from Christchurch recently attended a course on safety in the mountains at a camp at Lake Lyndon, near Porter’s Pass. Five members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club gave demonstrations and instruction on roping, rappelling, the use of slings and other methods of negotiating crevasses. Rock climbing was practised on an 80ft rock tower.
The party, in 10 groups of eight, each led by a trainer or scouter with climbing experience, attempted to climb Mount Enys, 7200 ft high. After heavy snow at 3000 ft, five parties turned back. The rest continued to the summit after encountering thick fog and further falls of snow and sleet.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29799, 16 April 1962, Page 10
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