Mountains and climbers
The Canterbury Mountaineer, 1973-74. Edited by David Billing.
The latest “Canterbury Mountaineer” is, like the best of its predecessors, consciously a club annual. It has no aspirations to have a wider or literary appeal. This lack of pretension is its great strength. Members of the club range widely in New Zealand and overseas, although this year there are articles about climbing in New Zealand, South America and Australia alone. Most of them will appeal chiefly to members and other mountaineers. Rambles in the foothills or on easier peaks are still recorded as well as hair-raising new climbs.
Specifically, the 1974 Kennedy Memorial Lecture by H. A. Morton, reprinted in full, contains provocative reflections on New Zealand policy in areas of interest to conservationists and others as well as climbers. P. Lusk’s short article on the threats to the mountain country posed by proposals to exploit mineral resources also deserves to be read outside of mountaineering circles.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33804, 29 March 1975, Page 10
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