Two Against the Alps - Graeme Dingle 1972 1st edition

Two Against the Alps - Graeme Dingle

Published by Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, Christchurch, 1972 1st edition, ISBN: 0723303452

Hardcover in Very Good Condition, minor scuffing to edge of dust jacket. Complete map at back of book.

The first winter traverse of the Southern Alps from end to end by Jill Tremain and Graeme Dingle last year captured interest throughout New Zealand. After two months of preparation, they set out on the Milford Track on 5 July, and on 8 September reached Lake Rotoroa in Nelson, the end of the alpine section. Their adventure finished with a two-day canoe run down the Wairau River. The route of the traverse is shown on a fold-out map at the end of the book. This winter journey was a tough challenge, one that Dingle had long been thinking about. As his companion, he had a climber whom he regards as one of the best woman mountaineers in New Zealand. Because his partner was a woman game enough to tackle such a formidable test, public interest in the traverse became greater. Danger was often present, and Dingle was lucky to escape alive when an avalanche swept him a thousand feet down a face above the Spence Glacier. Graeme Dingle wrote most of his story of the traverse while they were in the mountains, and his account has an immediacy, a freshness that give the reader almost a sense of participation. There is humour, such as the description of the hutbound community. near Mount Cook during a week-long storm. The author deals forthrightly with some public criticism which arose over aspects of the traverse.

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