One of the earliest associations between Swiss people and the New Zealand mountains came about when Jakob Lauper accompanied John Henry Whitcombe on the first crossing of Whitcombe Pass, between Canterbury and Westland, in 1863. On their journey, the pair followed a stream from the Rakaia River up to the Main Divide. The stream bears Lauper’s name, which until 2002 was misspelt as ‘Louper’.
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Photograph by Jock Phillips
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