LOOKING ACROSS THE MURCHISON GLACIER
[Wheeler & Son, Photo.
Probably our case is a unique one, and I doubt if there exists another instance where two or three novices—at any rate at ice work—have banded themselves together and gone systematically into heavy Alpine work ‘right away’ (as the Americans say), doing all their own porterage and guide work from the start. We learned fast from that best of masters—‘hard experience.’
AORANGI FROM THE TASMAN GLACIER
[Wheeler & Son, Photo.
Had we been consistently following in the footsteps of trained guides we should not have concerned ourselves about this, that, and the other, but would have left everything to the men of experience, simply being towed about in their wake; whereas we have been obliged to train and exercise all those qualities which a guide possesses, perforce.