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Shannon News, 18 June 1929, Page 3

"There are two types of people — those to whom mountains are an obstacle, and those to whom they throw out a challenge t,o be conquered,” said Mr J. W. Shaw in the course of a lecture on ‘‘Mountaineering in Literature,” given under the ausjiices of the Alpine Sports Club at Auckland. He said that poets who had written on the grandeur of the mountains were however, not themselves mountaineers. Milton had sung pf the freedom of the hills in “ L’Allegro,” but not until the close of the 18th century was the challenge of the mountains really felt. Shelley, Byron and Goldsmith had seen and written of the glory of the mountains. Curiously enough, the renowned traveller, Marco Polo, had entirely escaped their lure.