ALPINE GRANDEUR

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1928, Page 4

ALPINE GRANDEUR

DR E. TICtCHJSLMANN’S ADDRESS CHRISTCHURCH. June 14. Magnificent scones of mountains and glaciers in New Zealand and Switzerland, as well as views in Cumberland, were projected on the screen last night when Dr E. Teiehelmann, of gave a lantern lecture on mountaineering. The hall of the Christchurch Public Library, .where the address was given, was well filled by an appreciative audience. The lecture was delivered under the auspices of the Christchurch Tramping Club.

“No man has done more climbing in New Zealand than Dr Teichelniann, and no one has spoken about it less/’ said Professor ft. Speight, who presided.

Dr Teielielmauh expressed the hope that the Christchurch Tramping Club would become amalgamated with the New Zealand Alpine Club. Mountaineering was one of the finest of sports, he said, and it taxed no one but the climber. ' The speaker did not look upon a mountaineer as one who specialised in scaling peaks; rather was lie one who did mountain work. Some of the greatest mountaineers of the world may not have climbed any high peaks. Knowledge, caution and strength were necessary for work in the mountains, which was thought by many to he an expensive sport. Camping-out was not ‘ expensive, especially if one indulged in mountaineering in a gentle way. A guide was not necessary in many eases. In .speaking upon a lantern slide of the -Matterhorn, the lecturer described the Swiss mountain as one of the inost magnificent sights in the world. A rock tooth rose for pbout 5000 feet above the shoulders. The mountain was some 14.000 feet high and was a remarkable rocky monument.

“There is no place in the world where, from a sea coast, one can get I such magnificent views of mountain scenery as from Westland. One can see about a hundred miles of the .divide,” stated the doctor, after showing on the screen several beautiful views of high mountains "mirrored in calm lakes. The slides showed some very stefep rock-climbing in Cumberland rind in Switzerland. The art of rock craft and snow craft were shown in the manner in which men roped together sealed almost perpendicular, walls o f rock. Some fine mountain scenes were shown, ns well as slides of the Franz Josef and Fox River glaciers. Camps in .the higher parts of the Southern Alpk were interesting,- and some of the panoramic views of mountain peaks were magnificent. Mountain flora, and the destructive yet interesting kea bird, were, shown in their natural surroundings. , l>r Teiehelmann was • accorded a vote of thanks for his address, as was also Mr W. A. Kennedy, who operated the lantern, arid who had ac-1 companied Dr Teiehelmann tin soine - pf his. expeditions. I