What are the role of clubs and how can they stay relevant for future generations? Kathy Ombler, journalist and FMC member, delves into the many creative ways clubs are practicing diversity, advocacy, and technology.
David Ellis from Earth Sea Sky gives a brief history of next to skin technology, from the 1970's till now.
The Tararua Tramping Club is celebrating its centenary on the 3rd of July 2019, and one of its centenary events is a commemorative tramp.
In my early years in New Zealand, even my father-in-law gave me a hard time for being a public servant and a Pommie. You take these things on the chin and realise, eventually, it’s a type of Kiwi bloke-humour and probably well meant.
The summit ridge climb shown in the film was the real thing. What doesn’t show is that the NW ridge wasn’t accessed direct from Colin Todd hut. We put in fixed ropes on the Therma face of Mt Aspiring because the director ‘didn’t want any footprints’ on the ridge. The whole crew dropped off the NW ridge into the Therma, traversed, then went vertically up to the NW ridge.
Help the Auckland Tramping Club identify these club crests from the 1950's
In an article first published in the 1993 Alpine Journal, Bob McKerrow recounts how a publican from the Red Lion Hotel ended up at the summit of Red Lion Peak.
FMC's guide to all things mountains was first published in the 1930's. Shaun Barnett has a close look at Safety in the Mountains, to see how advice has changed through the decades.
Outdoor pursuits collectvely described as 'Adventure Navigation' have had a rollicking first 50 years in New Zealand. Jamie Stewart looks at their rich contribution to our outdoor culture.
Sometimes you wish a hut could tell all its stories... Hugh Canard shares a few from when Pioneer was being built, lost huts, lost Cessna's and straight lining it on straight ski's.
The late Tony Gates shares some stories about the Kaweka Mountain Marathon.
"I am acutely conscious every time I get in the hills that someone had to fight to save that experience for me."... A 2010 opinion piece from then FMC President Richard Davies.
In 1934 two Canterbury University Tramping Club members were the subjects of an intense search. Shaun Barnett abridged their story using Papers Past (www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz).
The Hastings-based Heretaunga Tramping Club recently celebrated its 80th year adventuring in the local mountains
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