Bowie, Andrew Robert Michael, 1901-1982

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1953

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1533

Description: Mounted exhibition print of mountain guide Mick Bowie on the moraine at the Tasman Glacier. Taken by Les Cleveland, 1953. Vintage print stamped “Les Cleveland Photograph” from negative 15-084. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprint mounted with framing mat on backing board

Date: 1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1526

Description: Mounted exhibition print of French tourist party and their mountain guide Mick Bowie on the moraine at Tasman Glacier. Taken by Les Cleveland in 1958. Vintage print stamped “Les Cleveland Photograph” from negative 15-085. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprint mounted with framing mat on backing board

Date: 1938

By: Beer, Dora Hallenstein de, 1891-1982

Reference: PA-Group-00677

Description: 8 August to 13 December 1938 is the time span of this record of New Zealand's first overseas mountaineering trip from Burma to China. The record begins at Myitkyina in north eastern Burma, the end of the railway line from Rangoon and not far from the Chinese Border. From Myitkyina the party made its way by mule caravan to Tengyueh (Tengueh) just across the Chinese border in Yunnan Province where there was a British Consulate. From there they travelled due east crossing the Salween (Nu Jiang) river on the way to Yungchang (Baoshan). Here they connected with a section of the China-Burma road. This took them across the Mekong (Lancang Jiang) river to the turn off to Dali (Tali) and Likiang (Lijiang) at the south western end of Lake Er hai. From Likiang they travelled 20 miles north to the upper reaches of the Yangtze Kiang (Jinsha Jiang) river where it cuts through the ranges of the Yulan Shan (Yulong Xue Shan) and Mount Sansato which was the goal of the expedition. Bad weather delayed the assault on the mountain and when the weather cleared at 19,000 ft, the intense cold drove them back to their base camp. They tried other approaches, but again were forced back by strong winds above 18,000 feet. When they decided to leave Sansato, they made an excursion to the gorges of the Yangtze Kiang, 10,000 feet below them. After this three of the party, Mary Byles, Majorie Edgar-Jones, and Mick Bowie set out for home. The other three, Dora de Beer, Kurt Suter, and Frazer Ratcliffe, returned to the mountain to try to recover the gear which had been abandoned in the snow. During this operation they also took time out to climb the 5,900 metre Mount Geena Nkoo. All of these events and more have been recorded in considerable detail by Dora de Beer. People, villages, cities, shops, inns, temples, and the countryside make it rather like a National Geographic photograph essay made just before changes in modes of transport would turn travellers into tourists. New Zealand's first overseas climbing expedition was organised by a woman, the English born Australian mountaineer, Marie Beuzeville Byles. Marie Byles had done much of her formative climbing in the New Zealand Southern Alps in the early 1930s where she met guide Kurt Suter whom she asked to lead the expedition. Suter chose Mick Bowie as the second guide after his original choice, Jack Cox, withdrew. As well as the two New Zealand guides, Marie Byles invited two of the most experienced women climbers that the Southern Alps had yet produced, Dora de Beer and Marjorie Edgar-Jones. A young Australian climber, Fraser Radcliffe (or Ratcliffe), completed the party. This expedition did not do a great deal of really hard climbing even by the standards of the day, but it remains a memorable one as it involved professional guides and three women who had learned their mountaineering skills in New Zealand. New Zealand women would not begin climbing overseas regularly until the late 1960s, and guides would not take clients away from the Southern Alps again until the late 1970s. (info. from "New Zealand's First Overseas Climbing Expedition": Colin Monteath: "Adventure" Jan/Feb 1989). The summit of Mount Sansato was first reached by a Chinese research team from Beijing in 1963. (Info from the Lonely Planet Guide to South West China, 1986) Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-083153 to 083524 Quantity: 372 b&w original negative(s). 4 b&w original transparency/ies. Provenance: After Dora de Beer's death in 1982 her brother Esmond gave this collection of negatives to Francis Russell of Christies as his family had mountaineering interests. Transfers: The original negative envelopes with Dora De Beer's captions written on them, and some supporting information photocopied from more recent publications are held in the PAColl sequence. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1999. Reference number changed from PAColl-5874 to PA-Group-00677 in 2011.

Date: 1964-1966

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8179-75

Description: Letters to mountain people, mostly general correspondence (1964-1966); most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Also includes letters to Wynette and Garry; Mr Pearce; and to and from David, Opoho; and Andy Anderson, Christchurch. Other Titles - NZ National Park news (v7, n1 Feb-Apr 1975) Other Titles - FMC bulletin (n20, Nov 1964) Other Titles - NZAC Wellington newsletter (n243, 28 May 1965) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1926-1946

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-186

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1926-1946. Several photographs of English mountaineer, Miss Kate Gardiner - with her guide Alack, with her guide V Williams on summit of Mt Cook, 1929, and one with English companion, Miss Corry, ca 1931; Miss L Familton with guides Williams and Alack, 1930; guide Brusted, 1932 and as leader of a rescue party (undated); Maori guide Joe Fleurty at Franz Josef Glacier; member of Tararua Tramping Club climbing a rock face at Titahi Bay, 1926; guide Graham with L M S Amery & A P Harper; P Graham, Vic Williams & Dave Graham resting on Haast Ridge (undated). Group photos of mountain guides (Frank, Alack, etc); prominent Taranaki alpinists - L O Hooker, J P Murphy & Rod Syme, 1932; photo of or by E T Napier; Canterbury Mountaineering Club rescue at Mount Rolleston, 1942; climbing the Whakapapa Glacier; H K Douglas of Wellington with guide M Bowie of Hermitage, Mt Cook, after their traverse of Mts Silberhorne, Tasman and Ledenfelt, 1937. Chess tournaments - E H Severns and R G Wade, 1944; Mrs Brethwith [?], member of Otago Chess Club, 1941; Victory Chess Congress, Christchurch - winner T Lepviikmann of Wellington, finalists J D Speele, H McNabb & R G Wade, 1946; Arturito Pomar, 14 year old Spanish chess prodigy competing in the International Chess Tournament in London, 1945-1946. Hiking and walking - Hikers and hitch-hiker in England during the war years, 1941; father with daughter in his knapsack near the summit of Mt Tarawera, 1932; group of climbers ascending Tarawera, 1932; group of young Christchurch women walking over the Cashmere Hills, 1941; large group resting beside Lake Blackwater, Christchurch, 1937; group of young men and women hikers from Christchurch, 1933 Oscar Coberger and Felix Harley navigating the Waimakariri in a kayak, 1933 Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1938

From: Beer, Dora Hallenstein de, 1891-1982 :Negatives of New Zealand's first mountaineering expedition overseas

Reference: 1/4-083334-F

Description: Mick Bowie climbing a rock face near Mount Sansato In the Yulan Shan. The assault on Mount Sansato. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1938

From: Beer, Dora Hallenstein de, 1891-1982 :Negatives of New Zealand's first mountaineering expedition overseas

Reference: 1/4-083295-F

Description: Photo taken after the final retreat from Mount Sansato and just before trip to Yantze Kiang gorges Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1938

From: Beer, Dora Hallenstein de, 1891-1982 :Negatives of New Zealand's first mountaineering expedition overseas

Reference: 1/4-083405-F

Description: On the way to the Yulan Shan and Mount Sansato Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1938

From: Beer, Dora Hallenstein de, 1891-1982 :Negatives of New Zealand's first mountaineering expedition overseas

Reference: 1/4-083351-F

Description: In the Yulan Shan. The assault on Mount Sansato. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).