SCIENTIFIC SKI-ING
Guides Taught by Amateur EXPERT NEW ZEALANDER This winter for the first time in New Zealand ski-ing is being taught scientifically. The new method was introduced recently at The Hermitage, Mount Cook, by Mr. H. Elworthy, a New Zealand amateur. In past years ski enthusiasts in this country have become proficient as a result of slow and rather arduous practice without expert guidance. Mr. R. L. Wigley, managing director of the Mount Cook Tourist Company, told “The Dominion” yesterday. Even the European guides at the Hermitage—proficient at ski-ing from childhood —found difficulty in imparting self-taught principles to visitors. Mr. Elworthy, during his time at an English university, spent many holiday periods in Switzerland, where lie joined ti>e famous Kandahar Club, Mtirren, and trained in the Arlberg school under W. It. Bracken, a British champion. As a result, when he returned to New Zealand recently, he was able to put tha Mount Cook guides through the Arlberg course.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 223, 16 June 1932, Page 2
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