Evolution of the Arthurs Pass to Mount Cook Traverse
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Heading up the Waimakariri River to begin the traverse
"Many Canterbury men know that a tough trans-alpine crossing can be a harder test of competence in unorthodox travel and stubborn endurance than a deal of high climbing" - John Pascoe, one of the fore-fathers of early Southern Alps exploration, in Unclimbed New Zealand, 1939.