With Axe and Rope in the New Zealand Alps

Chapter 15: L’ENVOI

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About This Book

A mountaineer recounts five seasons of climbing and exploration in New Zealand's Southern Alps, describing routes, attempts on Aorangi (Mount Cook) and neighboring summits, glacier travel on the Hooker, Tasman, Murchison and Onslow glaciers, and the region's geography, climate, vegetation, and glacial formations. The narrative mixes practical guidance on equipment, camps, and river and ice crossings with observational natural history, photographic illustrations, and a survey-derived map, while examining moraine deposition, snow-line variation, and the impressive scale and character of the alpine landscape.

L’ENVOI

This little book has but told the story of the ramblings and adventures of a lover of Nature. I fear that I have signally failed to do justice to her features, or to convey any adequate idea of her mystic influence. Would that I could impart that which I can feel.

Should it fall into the hands of Swiss climbers it may serve to show that the brotherhood of the mountains extends even to out-of-the-way New Zealand, and that in that country, as well as in the Old World, the ineffable glories of the mountains have power to charm and to captivate the hearts of men.