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To the Mountains
A collection of New Zealand alpine writing
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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 tahr. A climbing party is bombarded by falling rock when Ruapehu suddenly erupts. A mountaineer pays tribute to the Māori 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 Darrans 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 Drawing on 150 years of published and unpublished material, Laurence Fearnley and Paul Hersey, two top contemporary authors, have compiled a wide-ranging, fascinating and moving glimpse into New Zealands mountaineering culture and the people who write about it.
"Laurence Fearnley is an award-winning novelist and non-fiction writer based in Dunedin. The Hut Builder won the fiction category of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards and was shortlisted for the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain writing. In 2015 she worked alongside mountaineer Lydia Bradey to write Going Up Is Easy, a finalist in the Banff Mountain Literature Award. Laurence was awarded an Artists to Antarctica fellowship in 2003 and held the Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 2007. She has a PhD in creative writing.", "Paul Herseys previous jobs have included newspaper reporter, ice climbing instructor, fisheries enforcement officer and outdoors retail store manager. Now based in Dunedin, he spends much of his time either climbing or surfing, or writing on various outdoor themes. Pauls book Our Mountains (New Holland, 2013) won the adventure travel section award at the 2017 NZ Mountain Film and Book Festival. He also wrote Merino Country (Penguin Random House, 2016), and is a contributor to New Zealand Geographic, Alpinist, The Surfers Journal and North & South."
- ISBN-13
- 9781988531205
- Publisher
- Otago University Press
- Imprint
- Otago University Press (NZ)
- Publication date
- 1 June 2018
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 372
- Dimensions
- 230 x 150 mm
- Language
- English
