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THE
NEW ZEALAND ALPS
PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
[Wheeler & Son, Photo.
G. E. Mannering Mr. J. Dixon P. H. Johnson
CLIMBING PARTY ON THE TASMAN GLACIER
With Axe and Rope
IN
THE NEW ZEALAND ALPS
BY
GEORGE EDWARD MANNERING
MEMBER OF THE NEW ZEALAND ALPINE CLUB
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA
MEMBER OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY, N.Z.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET
1891
All rights reserved
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO ALL LOVERS OF NATURE
PREFACE
This short work contains the story of five seasons’climbing and exploring in the New Zealand Alps.Most of the material embodied in it has already appearedfrom time to time, in rather a different form,in the Christchurch (N.Z.) ‘Weekly Press.’
The author trusts that the publication of the samein book form, together with a map of the locality anda few photographic reproductions, will supply a wantin the shape of a guide-book to the Alpine mountaindistrict which is already beginning to be felt bytourists in New Zealand; and he hopes that the contentsmay not prove uninteresting to the general pub