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Story: Mountaineering

Hobnail boots

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Hobnail boots

Mountaineering required specialised equipment such as boots with nails on the soles to grip into the snow. The small pair in the middle of this collection of hobnail boots belonged to Lucy Mannering, wife of Guy Mannering, arguably New Zealand’s first serious mountaineer.

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Canterbury Museum, W. A. Kennedy Collection

Reference: 1975.203.20450

by George Mannering

Permission of Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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John Wilson, Mountaineering – Aoraki/Mt Cook, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10485/hobnail-boots (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.