Snow craft course
Twenty-two student teachers, including 14 women, from the Dunedin Teachers’ College are undergoing a special week-long course in basic ice and snow craft and rock climbing at Mt Cook. The manager of Alpine Guides (Mr G. T. M. Wills), who is course supervisor, said that as part of their project in mountaineering the trainees would spend a night in the open and ascend to the Ball Pass in the Mount Cook range. Also on the itinerary is. ar i ascent of “The Hump,” the (7679 ft Turners PeaK tw< ■ miles south of the third peak | of Mount Cook.
The group was greeted to day by south-easterly rain. Climbing conditions art especially good, the terrain being broken and icy in thi lower regions with mucl snow above 8000 ft.
Mr Wills is being assisted by two members of his .staff Associated with them is th, senior lecturer in physica' education at the training college (Mr P. Wilson).
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33487, 19 March 1974, Page 20
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