CLIMBING AT MT. COOK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2204, 17 July 1914, Page 10

CLIMBING AT MT. COOK

FAMOUS GUIDE APPOINTED. : The Hon v R. H. Rhodes informed a reporter yesterday that the Tourist Department had succeeded in obtaining' the services of tho well-known Alpine guide, Conrad Kain, for the coming se.-ison at Mount Cook district.. Guide Kain will be engaged in the early part of tho season in teaching the younger guides the finer "points of Alrane work, and will afterwards assist Chief Guide Graham in the work of high climbing. The engagement of Mr.' Kain will be of great assistance to'the guiding staff, which was'reduced by tho disaster 'to Guides Thomson and Richmond last season. " Conrad Kain is at present acting as chief guide to the Canadian Alpine Club. He has'a splendid climbing record in the European Alps, in Canada, and New Zealand. He_ came to New Zealand last ' year in the capacity of-, private guide to.Mr. Otto Frind, an enthusiastic Alpinist, who; purposes revisiting Netv Zealand during the coming season. Conrad Kain comes fromNasswald, a village at the the far-famed Raxalpc. and is now in his thirty-first yew. Ho contributed to the' last number of. tlie "Alpine Journal" a most interesting. article on the ascent of-Mount Robson. This is one of the highest .mountains in the Rookie.":—higher t!".n Mount Cn'ok —aitfl Mr. Kain chose the same route as was taken by Mr. D. M. S. Amery, M.P., formerly of "The Times" literarv sfeiff, and author of "The .Times"' "History of the War." Night overtook Kain's party 011 the descent, and they slept out on a rock ridge. The climb was a long onrl arduous one, and not without some danger.