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Snow cave

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Snow cave

Where there are no huts, mountaineers sometimes dig snow caves. Malcolm Emmerson and Dave Dittmer prepare dinner in a cave in 1989.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1989/3970/10

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John Wilson, Mountaineering – Clubs and huts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10505/snow-cave (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.