MOUNTAIN CLIMBING.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—l notice in Tuesday's paper a report in which Air. Larsen suggests that no junior guides be allowed on the north side of Egmont. This means, no doubt that no parties are to climb unless accompanied by an old experienced guide. Certainly this is the right policy in winter, but hardly in the summer, when a trip to the top simply means a hard tramp. It is the spirit of adventure that draws most people to mountaineering, and the younger they are the stronger the lure, but if they are made to take guides on tripe they know they can do on their own this adventurous spirit is going to be soon killed. I kuow it would have been in my case. I think Mr. Larsen would find to enforce a rule of that description he would certainly antagonise all the young climbers when to do the .greatest amount of good he should be their best friend. —I am, etc., OLD CLIMBER. Opunake, April 12.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1932, Page 8
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170MOUNTAIN CLIMBING. Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1932, Page 8
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