}IMSELF an experienced climber, the BBC’s commentator Wynford Vaughan Thomas has been lyrical in his praise of New Zealand’s mountains. Here he is conducting an interview at the summit of one. The person being interviewed is Jim Weston, of the Taranaki Alpine Club, who acted as guide. The mountain is the 8260 feet Egmont. With a portable tape recorder and his recording engineer John Lanchester (referred to throughout the climb as "my trusty Sherpa"), Mr. Thomas ascended the mountain in about five hours. The party climbed through cloud to about 4000 feet,.and on reaching the summit had an excellent view of Ngauruhoe, Tongariro and Ruapehu. They spent about an hour on top taking photographs and recording programmes’ for the BBC and for Station 2XP, New Plymouth. The latter programme was broadcast by the New Plymouth station shortly before the Royal visit to that city. Before undertaking the three-hour descent, the party used their ice. axes to inscribe -in the snow the legend: Long May She Reign.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 18
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