Name: Nic Low: the Southern Alps from a Māori point of view.
Start: 2025-02-13T19:00:00+13:00
End: 2025-02-13T21:30:00+13:00
Location: The Cashmere Club

$Nic Low: the Southern Alps from a M\u0101ori point of view.$

Our section talks are about to start again for 2025 and the guy you have all been waiting for, Nic Low, is first up!
Nic Low: the Southern Alps from a Māori point of view.
Thursday 13 February
Cashmere Club
Doors open at 7pm. Talk starts promptly at 7:30pm
Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu) is a writer, regular contributor to New Zealand Geographic, and the author of three acclaimed books, including the best-selling Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Over many years, he retraced the alpine routes used by his Ngāi Tahu ancestors, and used these walking and climbing journeys to explore the untold histories of our beloved Alps. Just how high did pre-European Māori go into the snow and ice? What does it mean to climb Aoraki, only to deliberately turn back before the top? Can you be a mountaineer and still see the peaks as ancestors turned to stone?
If you want to purchase an alcoholic drink from the bar, you must show a Guest pass. You can pick one of these up inside the room we meet in where they’ll be on a table near the door.
Everyone is welcome, you don’t need to be an NZAC member to attend.