MOUNTAIN WARFARE
NEW ZEALANDERS TAKING TO SKIS TRAINING in LEBANON. HIGH STANDARDS OF FITNESS & ENDURANCE. (Official-War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F.) BEIRUT, April 25. The New Zealand Division now has the nucleus of a mountain formation, as a result of training which picked officers and men have had at the Ninth Army ski school, formerly the Australian ski school, in Syria. This is intensive training, the toughest any New Zealand troops have yet had—hours of long-distance ski-ing with packs and rifles, demanding a high standard of fitness and endurance. Early in March the first New Zealand students, arriving at the school nearly 7000 feet high in the Lebanon Mountains, found the whole area deep in snow. There is now more rock than snow, but ski-ing is possible for several w’eeks yet. The small instructing staff was soon increased by the best New Zealand pupils from ski and alpine clubs in Taranaki, Ruapehu and the South Island.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1942, Page 2
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