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The Outside Column

A party who went to Kapuni Lodge on Egmont for Alpine instruction last year were just setting down for the night when they discovered that one of the party was missing. Fearing that she might have wandered outside and got lost, they searched the surrounding mountain side to no avail. As it was after midnight, they became rather concerned. Later she was discovered in bed — fast asleep.

An over-exuberant tramper who broke an ice-axe recently explains that it happened when he was swiping an imaginary Kea.