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Otago Witness, Issue 3958, 21 January 1930, Page 10

During his visit to Mount Cook. Dr E. Markham Loe. the English pianist, composer and author, says he missed the delicious smell of new mown hay and of pine trees which he experienced on the European Alps, visited by him about 20 times. New’ Zealand’s Alps are wild; but all the lower hills of the European Alps, he explained, are richly cultivated Three crops of hay are usually taken every year up to about 6000 feet, and p : n< trees grow up to a limit of about 8000 feet. On New Zealand’s Alps ho missed also the musical notes of cow bells and goat bells, which ring in the ears of elimbers in the lower altitudes of the European Alps. As far as he can estimate, New Zealand's Alps, although some thousands of feet lower than the European Alps, are hardet to climb owing to the fact that there seems to be little in the way of regular tracks, and to the absence of painted stones that arc a feature of passes on the Tyrolese Mountains, red, blue, or white marks indicating different directions’.