Trampers Broadcast

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 14, 17 October 1930, Page 5

Trampers Broadcast

~ An Unusual Programme RAMPING is an activity which has become very popular of recent .years, and the announcement that the concert given by the Auckland branch of the Alpine Sports Club is to be broadcast is not without interest. The foncert will be held in the Lewis Hady all. From a foundation membership of twenty-five on March 1, 1929, the club has steadily grown, and at the present time its members total 150. The primary objects of its constitution are fo encourage walking, climbing, and alpine sports in New Zealand. With the gradual development of our alpine playgrounds and the erection of modern hostels and lodges in the heart of the highlands, has come a realisation by many whose daily occupations are of an indoor nature ‘that the mountain regions have much to offer the sportsman or holiday-maker who visits them from time to time. Exhilarating winter sports, climbing, and walking tours form but part of the activities of the club parties when on tour. To promote good fellowship among mountaineers, mountain climbing and mountain exploration, and a little knowledge of the mountains through literature, science, and art, sums up one of the guiding principles of the elub’s work during the past sixteen months. At the evenings which are a feature of the life of the club in Auckland, an endeavour is being made to inculcate those principles that make for safety in mountaineering, It is on the ability of a. party to work harmoniously in action and by co-operative effort .among members of a climbing party that really suecessful and enjoyable climbing and exploration expeditions depend, and it is through the practice of the known principles of the sport that the organised climbing parties: of the club achieve their greatest success, The outdoor activities of the club are not restricted to mountain climbing. A special feature of club outings is the regular weekly tramps on the Waitakere Ranges and to the west coast, where some of Auckland’s finest scenery is to be found. Hveryone who wishes to hear further of the "Delights of Tramping" should listen-in to 1YA on Thursday evening, October 23. \ ‘