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To the mountains : a collection of New Zealand alpine writing
Title
To the mountains : a collection of New Zealand alpine writing / selected by Laurence Fearnley & Paul Hersey.
ISBN
9781988531205
1988531209
Publication
Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"A schoolgirl races from class to join a weekend trip to the hills. A mountaineering guide recalls his first weeks on the job during the 1920s. A young climber is shown the best route over the Main Divide by a big bull thar. A climbing party is bombarded by falling rock when Ruapehu suddenly erupts. A mountaineer pays tribute to the Maori guides from South Westland, while a fighter pilot tries to recapture an ascent of the Minarets from his tent in Nigeria during World War II. From the Durrans of Fiordland to Denali in Alaska, New Zealand climbers, both experienced and recreational have captured their alpine experience in letters, journals, articles, memoirs, poems and novels. Drawing on 150 years of published and unpublished material, Laurence Fearnley and Paul Hersey, two top contemporary authors, have compiled a wide-ranging, fascinating and moving glimpse into New Zealand's mountaineering culture and the people who write about it"--Jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 13, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
A writing climber : an introduction to New Zealand alpine literature
Mountains with words / Paul Hersey
Castle Hill, 2003 / Rangi Faith
Young, short and loving it / Rebecca Smith
Child explorer on the Milford Track (1889) / Eleanor Adams
[selection] from Journals, 1833-1873 / Rev. Richard Taylor
[selection] from Peaks, packs and mountain tracks / W. Scott Gilkison
[selection] from The explorer / Philip Temple
[selection] from Mixed grill / Forrestina Ross
Guiding memories at the Hermitage and Franz Josef 1929-1938 / Jack Cox
[selections] from Mountain midsummer : climbing in four continents / Michael Gill
Climbing / Sara Knox
[selection] from Going up is easy / Lydia Bradey
[selection] from Mountain solitudes : solo journeys in the Southern Alps of New Zealand / Aat Vervoorn
The reconnaissance of Mt Evans / John Pascoe
Alpine reflections : a values-based approach to climbing / Steve Hart
Tokens of the spirit : exploring objectivity, emotions and fate in the Southern Alps
Ancestors / Brian Turner
Fire and ice / Philip Temple
[selection] from Hero stories of New Zealand / James Cowan
The climb of the ancient mariners / Bill Whelen
[selection] from The naturalist / Thom Conroy
Letter to W.J.P. Hodgkins describing an ascent of Mt Earnslaw, 1894 / Joseph O'Leary
Account of expeditions up the Matukituki River, 1909 and 1911 / Bernard Head
First to the summit : Mitre Peak, Milford Sound / J.R. Dennistoun
Maori mountaineers of South Westland / Bob McKerrow
[selection] from Freda du Faur : Southern Alps 1909-1913 / Rhian Gallagher
[selection] from The conquest of Mount Cook and other climbs / Freda du Faur
Letter describing a five-day camping trip from Fox Glacier to Franz Josef Glacier, 1926 / Dorothy Theomin
Karangarua-Landsborough / Doreen Pickens
[selection] from The hut builder / Laurence Fearnley
Cushioning the blow / Rangi Faith
[selection] from Yunnan 1939 : account of a journey in south-west China / Dora de Beer
Letter to Jim Rose from Everest Base Camp, 2 June 1953 / Edmund Hillary
The first Clyde ascent of Mount Everest / Derek Chinn
Five feet from the Gods : Kanchenjunga, 1955 / Norman Hardie
A ridge too far : the first female ascent of Denali's Cassin Ridge / Karen McNeill
High hopes / Brian Turner
[selection] from Mountain midsummer : climbing in four continents / Michael Gill
Ngauruhoe (1965) / Anonymous
Plateaunic melodrama / Aat Vervoorn
Economic man / Ross Cullen
Oh where have you been my blue-eyed sons? Nick Cradock
[selection] from The high Alps of New Zealand (1882) / William Spotswood Green
Hongi's Track / Kim Logan
Letter to Mavis Davidson, 1971 / Jill Tremain
Whte as a sheet / Allan Uren
Ruapehu, 23 September 1995, 5.08 pm / Carol Diamond Christie and David Baguley
[selections] from Expeditions / Andrew Lindblade
Avalanche / Caoilinn Hughes
A solitary climber (1906) / Anonymous
A pioneer phase / J. Walton
[selection] from High misadventure : New Zealand mountaineering tragedies and survival stories / Paul Hersey
[selection] from Among secret beauties / Brian Wilkins
Summit of dreams / Mark Whetu
[selection] from The heart of the bush (1910) / Edith Searle Grossman
Climbs at the head of the Franz Josef (1933) / Ida Corry
[selection] from Two against the Alps / Graeme Dingle
Under the mountain : an ascent of La Perouse from the Cook River / Penny Goddard
Never let the facts ... / Peter Gough
[selection] from Wind from a distant summit / Pat Deavoll
[selection] from Wall of shadows / Graeme Dingle
Never / Rachel Bush
[selection] from Beyond the snowline / Aat Vervoorn
Flight, with mountains / Fleur Adcock
[selection] from Harry's absence : looking for my father on the mountain / Jonathan Scott
Gifford, Talbot and Grenfell / Sir Thomas Hunter
A tribute from Ed Hillary / Edmund Hillary
Letter to Jim Glasgow, 1954 / Peter Graham
[selection] from Great days in New Zealand mountaineering / John Pascoe
Speech presented at Summits for Suffrage, 1993 / Doreen Murie
[selection] from Going up is easy / Lydia Bradey with Laurence Fearnley
[selection] from Protection / Paul Hersey
Incantation / Richard Thomson
West on sunset / Tom Riley
Quail Flat, 1960 / Kerry Popplewell
Passing generations in the Hopkins / Brin Williman
[selection] from Wind from a distant summit /. Pat Deavoll
May happy returns / Sharron Came
Letter from Nigeria, 1942 / Christopher Johnson
Man in the landscape / Hone Tuwhare.
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Anecdotes.
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