Story: Mountaineering

More links and websites

• Canterbury Mountaineering Club

  This site includes a short history, and information on the club's huts in the Southern Alps.

• Hillary returns

  This 1953 newsreel on the NZ On Screen website shows Sir Edmund Hillary on his return to New Zealand after climbing Everest.

• New Zealand Alpine Club

  The website of the major mountaineering club has information about climbing, huts and club activities.

• No mean feat

  A 2002 documentary, on the NZ On Screen website, follows Mark Inglis as he attempts to climb Aoraki/Mt Cook on prosthetic legs.

• Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club

  The club’s website includes a full history of its activities.

More suggestions and sources

• Hillary, Edmund. High adventure.
  London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
• Logan, Hugh. Classic peaks of New
  Zealand. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2002.
• Mannering, Guy. The Hermitage years of
  Mannering and Dixon. Geraldine: GM
  Publications, 2000.
• Palman, Alex. Aoraki Mt Cook: a guide to
  mountaineering in the Aoraki/Mt Cook region
  including the Westland Glaciers and Godley
  Valley. Christchurch: New Zealand Alpine Club,
  2001.
• Pascoe, John. Great days in New Zealand
  mountaineering. Wellington: A. H. & A. W.
  Reed, 1958.
• Wilson, Jim. Aorangi: the story of Mount
  Cook. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs,
  1968.