A NOTED LECTURER.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 91, 17 April 1923, Page 3

A NOTED LECTURER.

Mr. Julian Grande, the noted journalist and alpine climber, will deliver two illustrated lectures, entitled "Alpine Ascents and Adventures" and "My Wanderings in Arabia," in the Town Hall, Concert Chamber, on Thursday, and Friday, 26th and 27th April. Mr. Grande is known as one of the most intrepid and experienced members of the Swiss Alpine Club, and is equally wellknown as the correspondent in Switzerland of the London "Observer," the New York "Times," and other influential British and American journals. During the last seventeen years he has climbed the Alps from end to end, and succeeded in obtaining with fiis camera some of the most remarkable photographs that have ever been taken at high altitudes. These include flashlight photos, taken during a storm, with the seracs and ice pinnacles dazzlingly white against the dark dominant background of rocks; and equally wonderful views of sunrise from the summit of the Jungfrau. These will be exhibited by means of lantern slides, and form, it is said, a vivid pictorial commentary upon the hazards and thrilling events the lecturer go eloquently narrates. Mr. Grande has spoken in many New Zealand centres, and yet found time to make several ascents, these including the first conquest of the highest peak of the Triad Range, which he has named Barnicoat, in memory of his deceased wife, whose maiden name it w»i.