CALL Of MOUNT COOK
“ If we could only take Mount Cook and the Hermitage with us!” was the fervent wish of an English tourist who had travelled through many countries and had found his highest enjoyment m the world’s best alpine playground. That same heartfelt desire comes to all folk who find ideal refreshment and reinvigoration of mind and body in that wonderful region, which proves always that it is “ thousands' of feet above worry level.” Mount Cook, whose jewelled triple tiara gleams 12,349 ft above the sea, one of the world’s most majestic mountains, has a splendid retinue of noble _ peaks. Here, too, are stupendous glaciers far larger than the biggest “ ice rivers ” of the Swiss Alps, and the way is easy lo these huge courses of sparkling crystal. Every tiling in. this bright realm of enchantment is on the gigantic scale.
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Evening Star, Issue 21995, 3 April 1935, Page 16
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143CALL Of MOUNT COOK Evening Star, Issue 21995, 3 April 1935, Page 16
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