"Harmless Lunatics"
hed to-day when any fatality occurs on one mountain, there are plenty of people ready to condemn the sport and call for safeguards, whereas dozens of fatalities in other fields of sport pass without any such criticism or
protest. Those who go in for climbing are often looked upon as more or less harmless lunatics. We have to put up with goodnatured chaff and rather superior toleration from those saner men who indulge in other sports. The very people who ridicule mountaineering by asking what is the good of carrying swags over snow and ice, would resent being asked what sense there
was in thirty men chasing a piece of inflated leather round a paddock. You can ridicule any game by analysing it- (From a talk by A. P. Harper, "Edward Whymper, A Mountaineering Centennial’),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 10
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