MOUNTAINEERS IN N.Z.
Memorial Lecture By Mr J. D. Pascoe
A plea for the preservation of New Zealand’s wilderness was made by Mr J. D. Pascoe, a mountaineer and author on mountaineering, in Christchurch. Mr Pascoe objected to what he tailed the “ping-pong tables and traffic cops" of modern national parks.
He was giving the inaugural address of annual lectures arranged by the Canterbury Mountaineering Club to perpetuate the memory of Mr W. A. Kennedy, a famed mountaineer and founder of the club. Mountain climbing in the last 100 years was described in an illustrated talk given by Mr Pascoe. He showed slides, some taken by Mr Kennedy at the turn of the century. This “horse and buggy” period was compared with contemporary mountaineering when Mr Pascoe showed slides of a three weeks' expedition from Otago to the West Coast.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29903, 17 August 1962, Page 13
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