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Kōrero: Mountaineering

John Pascoe

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John Pascoe

The amateur climbers of the 1930s were strongly represented in Canterbury, where they pioneered climbs in the Waimakiriri and Rakaia river catchments. John Pascoe, posing in this self-portrait taken after a trip up the Adams valley in 1936, became their chronicler, photographer and publicist.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/2-058791; F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Wilson, Mountaineering – The age of the amateur, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/10497/john-pascoe (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.