Images from the book Tramping: A New Zealand History by Shaun Barnett and Chris Maclean (Craig Potton Publishing, ISBN: 9781927213230), as discussed by the authors with Kim Hill on the Saturday Morning programme of 18 October 2014.
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Shaun Barnett and Chris Maclean on the summit, 2013.
© Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
Lou Thornley, Yuletide, Kahurangi National Park.
© Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
Jack Adamson’s photograph of two men, probably Tom Watson and Jack McKay, crossing the Callery River, West Coast, 1897.
© South Canterbury Museum, Timaru, Print l2006/002.0219
Nailed boots typical of those worn by trampers during the 1920s and 1930s.
© Wally Neill, Tararua Tramping Club collection
Women in early tramping attire, 1920s.
© Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, pacoll-4288-01
Roland Ellis of Fairydown, who designed this four-person tent in the 1930s, claimed it was capable of withstanding the ‘dirty nor-westers’ of the Southern Alps.
Illustration: from the New Zealand Alpine Journal, 1935
Tramping gear used by Tony Nolan during the 1940s.
From ‘out and about’ by Tony Nolan, Tararua Tramping Club collection
Trampers carrying Peter Langer’s body down the Ngatiawa Stream, beneath Mt Kapakapanui, behind Waikanae, 1964.
Barry Durrant
The Mana Wahine team, Helen Nortje, Lani Evans and Bronwen Waters, with support crew member Danielle Carey, near the Dragons Teeth, Kahurangi National Park, 2007.
© Mana Wahine
Trampers (from left) Jeremy Ward, Sam Maclean, Phillip Le Pom and Oscar Ward using digital devices on the summit of Tapuae-o-Uenuku, Inland Kaikoura Range, Marlborough, 2005.
© Chris Maclean
Blue Lake and Red Crater, with Mounts Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu beyond, Tongariro National Park.
© Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
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