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This documentary comprehensively traces the history of skiing and winter sports in New Zealand. From Mannering and Dixon, who used homemade skis in an almost-successful ascent of Mt Cook and the hut-building pioneers of recreational ski clubs in their pre-Gore-tex garb, to commercial ski fields and lifts, superb archive footage shows the advances. New Zealand teams at the Winter Olympics in Oslo in 1952 and Sarajevo 32 years later had come some way from the days when carrier pigeons were used to report snow conditions from Canterbury's ski fields to Christchurch.
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Zealando Films
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Television, 1987 (Full Length)
Features an ascent of the Hochstetter Dome
Television, 1974 (Full Length)
Mountain adventure with Sir Ed
Short Film, 1946 (Full Length)
The 1946 NZ Ski Champs is shown here
Television, 1983 (Full Length Episode)
Avalanche safety lessons with Graeme Dingle
NZ ON SCREEN 2013
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