CLIMBING COURSE
40 To Take Part Forty mountaineering in-structor-trainees representing 19 organisations will take part in a fbur-day climbing course in the Ball glacier area of the Mount Cook National Park at Easter. Those attending the course will indude police search and rescue representatives from Umaru and Tekapo, Army representatives from Burnham military camp and the Special Air Service Squadron at Papakura, Royal New Zealand Air Force representatives from Wigram and Woodbourne, and rangers from the Mount Cbok and Fiordland National Parks, as well as repreeeotatives from tramping and mountaineering dubs, and deerstalkers. The eight instructors for the course have had climbing experience in the Andes, Europe, Himalayas, and Antarctica as well as New Zealand. At least two of the trainees have climbed Mount Cook, one has climbed in the Himalayas, and another in Alaska. The course has been organised by local representatives of the Federated Mountain Ctate of Naw Zealand.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31028, 6 April 1966, Page 8
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