Glacier Country - My Forty Years at Franz Josef by Ralph Warburton

This is a second-hand copy of the book Glacier Country - My Forty Years at Franz Josef by Ralph Warburton. 

Condition: This is a used book in very good condition.

Publisher: Shoal Bay
Year: 2004
ISBN: 1877251313
Format: Hardback with dustjacket
Pages: 154
Condition: Used (Very Good)

In the 1940's, and while in his 30's, Ralph Warburton fell in love with the mountains. He gave up his job of watchmaker and trained as a glacier guide, later becoming official photographer for glacier parties at Franz Josef. His family formed and grew up in the tiny South Westland village, a remote spot before the Haast highway was put through years later. In lucid, laconic prose, Ralph tells of adventurous crossings of the Main Divide, of mountain ascents, tragedies, miraculous rescues. He offers vignettes of village and family life, stories of the big weather affecting their lives and livelihoods and of colourful local personalities. It is also a story of love, between a man and his dog. Scott, the four-footed mountaineer learned to climb so he need never be parted from his master. He crossed mountain passes and weathered accidents that would have killed a lesser dog. Scott won the hearts of visitors to the glacier with his skills and his determination to be in party photos, always in one position: centre front.