Alpine dub journal
The 1974 “New Zealand Alpine Journal,” the first edited by Mr D. Mitchell, sets new standards for layout and design of sports club publications. But it remains primarily a record of climbs and mountain experiences, significant and insignificant, which will interest only a few non-mountaineers. On the few occasions where “imaginative” writing has been admitted to the journal’s pages, the effect is ofen strained and pretentious. The Alpine Club might produce a better annual publication if it abandoned the attempt to scale new heights of “literary mountaineering,’’ and ensured that the matter-of-fact records of concrete experiences, which make up the bulk of the contributions, are well written.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33693, 16 November 1974, Page 10
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110Alpine dub journal Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33693, 16 November 1974, Page 10
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