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New Zealand Alpine Club

Not to be confused with New Zealand Association of Counsellors.
NZAC
The New Zealand Alpine Club
AbbreviationNZAC
NicknameAlpine Club
Formation1891; 133 years ago (1891)
Founded atChristchurch, New Zealand
Legal statusIncorporated society
Region
New Zealand
Membership (2021)
4,400
AffiliationsInternational Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA)
Websitealpineclub.org.nz

The New Zealand Alpine Club (NZAC), is a national climbing organisation in New Zealand. It was founded 1891 and is one of the oldest alpine clubs in the world. NZAC was one of many founding members of International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA), and still an active member. As of 2021, NZAC has over 4,000 members who are spread across twelve main sections, eleven in New Zealand and one in Australia, plus members in other countries. It runs a national office based in Christchurch.

History

The NZAC was founded on 28 July 1891 at Warner's Commercial Hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand. Leonard Harper (Christchurch) was voted as the inaugural chairman in absentia. Harper had left for England on 25 July, and while away, it was discovered that he had embezzled money; hence he did not return.[1][2][3] Frederick Hutton (Christchurch), Edward Sealy (Timaru), Malcolm Ross (Dunedin), and John Holland Baker (Wellington) were the inaugural vice-presidents. Arthur Paul Harper, Leonard Harper's son, was the inaugural secretary and treasurer.[1]

Overview

The club actively promotes climbing in New Zealand and overseas. It publishes guidebooks to New Zealand mountains and to selected rock climbing areas, and also makes this information accessible online. It publishes a quarterly magazine The Climber (which is also online), and the annual New Zealand Alpine Journal. NZAC owns 17 lodges and huts that are available for use by club members and other climbers. Most sections provide instruction courses for beginning climbers and the club also provides instruction for intermediate and advanced skills. NZAC sponsors the annual national bouldering series held during the summer at four locations, as well as other local and national competitive climbing events.

Mountaineering

The visibility of mountaineering in New Zealand was boosted by the 1953 ascent of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary[4] and Tenzing Norgay. Hillary is amongst the best known and most revered New Zealanders and was a life member of the NZAC. Other NZAC members have completed first ascents in many mountain areas, including in the Himalayas, Antarctica and the Andes.[5][6]

New Zealand is a very mountainous country, and mountaineering has long been popular in New Zealand.[7][8] The mountaineering opportunities focus particularly on the Southern Alps which run the length of the South Island, but also include other ranges such as the Kaikōuras, Arrowsmiths and the North Island volcanoes Mount Taranaki and Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and Tongariro.

Rock Climbing

Rock climbing attracts many participants in New Zealand and the varied topography and rock types provide opportunities for rock climbing within some cities such as Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin, and within an hours drive of most cities in New Zealand. Ice climbing, bouldering, sport climbing and trad climbing are all well established.

References

  1. ^ a b "Alpine Club". Lyttelton Times. Vol. LXXVI, no. 9478. 29 July 1891. p. 3. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Town & country". Lyttelton Times. Vol. LXXVI, no. 9476. 27 July 1891. p. 4. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  3. ^ Langton, Graham. "Arthur Paul Harper". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  4. ^ Hillary, Edmund, High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
  5. ^ Colin Monteath, Hall and Ball: Kiwi mountaineers, Hedgehog House
  6. ^ Philip Temple, The world at their feet, Whitcombe and Tombs
  7. ^ Graeme Dingle, Dingle: Discovering the sense in adventure, Craig Potton Publishing
  8. ^ Norman Hardie, On my own two feet, Canterbury University Press

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