IMAGE
Loftus, Helen :Photographs of climbing Mt Tapuaenuku and a trip to Kaikoura
- Date
- 1923, 1925
- By
- Gunn, George Alexander, 1895-1968; Loftus, Helen, active 1970s-1990s
- Reference
- PAColl-7934
- Description
One album is a record of a group of Awatere football club members who climbed Mount Tapuaenuku in 11 February 1925. The other records a trip to Kaikoura made by George Alexander Gunn in April 1923.
Quantity: 2 album(s).
Provenance: Albums were compiled by George Alexander Gunn, Helen Loftus' maternal uncle.
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- No access restrictions
- Format
- 2 album(s), Photographs
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A trip to Kaikoura.
Date: April 1923
From: Loftus, Helen :Photographs of climbing Mt Tapuaenuku and a trip to Kaikoura
By: Gunn, George Alexander, 1895-1968
Reference: PA1-o-1218
Description: Record of a trip made by George Alexander Gunn and friends along the Kaikoura coast to Kaikoura and south to about Oaro. Photographed by George Alexander Gunn in April 1923 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Mount Tapaenuku climbed, February the 11th, 1925
Date: 1924-1925
From: Loftus, Helen :Photographs of climbing Mt Tapuaenuku and a trip to Kaikoura
By: Gunn, George Alexander, 1895-1968
Reference: PA1-o-1217
Description: Record of six members of the Awatere Rugby Football Club who climbed Mount Tapuae-O-Uenuku on the 10th and the 11th of February 1925. Four of the team had made a failed attempt at the summit the year before (1924), and two of the images in the album were taken at this time. The party foregathered at Seddon and drove up the Awatere Valley to the Hodder River where the walking began. They followed the Hodder River and then its tributary, the Shin. They spent the night in Shin Hut (built in 1880) and the next morning made the climb to the Crows Nest, passing the Pinacle, and then on to the summit. The reached Shin Hutt on the way out at four o'clock on the afternoon of the 11th of February. The six men were George Alexander Gunn, Alan Fleming, William (Bill) Dick, Jock Dick, Frank Dick, and Albert (Bert) Lawsen Kennington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).