TO CLIMB MOUNT COOK
NOTED ALPINIST ARRIVES
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "Tho Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day. After twenty years or mountaineering Mr. Horace J. Macartney, 1.8.0., has come to Now Zealand to climb Mount ■Cook. He arrived from Sydney by tho Aorangi. Mr. Macartney has been a member of the Alpine Club, London, for years, and told an interviewer that he was looikng forward to meeting the New Zealand members, among whom: are Professor Algie, of Auckland, and; Mr. A. P. Harper, president of the New; Zealand Alpine Club, Wellington. During.the past twenty years Mr^ Macartney has paid several visits to Switzerland, where he has successfully, undertaken many of the more arduous climbs. On leaving New Zealand, he will go to Vancouver and thence to tho! Rockies, which he will cross. For the past few weeks he has been touring Australia. He says that the Blue Monntains are wonderful. " There is, of course, no climbing in Australia; your; little country is the place for that," ha said, "and I am looking forward to meeting Peter Graham, the guide o£ whom Mr. Amery spoke so highly."
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 147, 19 December 1927, Page 8
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186TO CLIMB MOUNT COOK Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 147, 19 December 1927, Page 8
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