ALPINE SPORTS.
THE RUAPEHU SKI CLUB. FIFTY COMPETITORS EXPECTED. LADY" ALICE t FERGUSSON'S VISIT. [BY TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] NATIONAL PARK, Thursday. Alpine sportsmen are assembling at the Tongariro National Park to participate., in the winter sports to ■be held on Saturday by the Ruapehu Ski. Club. A gathering of nearly; 50 participants is expeqted. The accommodation at the Whakapapa Huts has been fully taxed. ! Conditions are ideal for alpine sports and Crater Lake has frozen for the first time since 1886. In recent years the thermal, nature of the crater has . withstood the most intense cold, ; but lately there have been evidences of j cooling. A party of 30 members of the. Ski Club left the Whakapapa ..Huts, at 3 o'clock this morning and reached the summit of Ruapehu after a climb of over sis hours. Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson and party ; will, leave the huts to-morrow morning for Lake . Taupo. Lady Alice will return. in the evening to join the Main Trunk express for Wellington.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 12
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167ALPINE SPORTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 12
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