The “Holiday Spirit.”

Winter at the Mt. Cook Hermitage is a season of merriment, indoors and out.

After happy hours of ski-ing, tobogganing, skating, glissading, amid peerless scenes of sparkling majesty, the holiday-makers have the roaring log-fires, songs and stories and radio-music, and dancing, billiards, and cards.

Cosy huts at the principal glaciers are bases for thrilling glides on far-reaching snowfields, and the fireside nights in those lonely outposts have their own special charm.

Norwegian and New Zealand ski experts are available for the coaching of novices, who soon learn how to glide swiftly over the snowfields.