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Visiting the Hermitage, with all its alpine attractions, with the Mt Cook Motor Co.
0 ft. Motor coach & people outside the office of White Star Tourist Service, Mt Cook Motor Co. Ltd.
8 ft. “Off for Mount Cook. Arrival at Fairlie”
15 ft. View of road & countryside from front of vehicle. Coming into small town, railway station - Fairlie, people wave. Coach enters garage, comes into main street again. Mt Cook Motor Co. sign.
54 ft. “Lake Tekapo. Most beautiful colour of all New Zealand lakes. A gem in turquoise blue”.
58 ft. People out of car picnicking at side of road. Lake & mountains in background.
83 ft. “Lake Pukaki. Showing Mount Cook 40 miles distant”
105 ft. “The Hermitage New Zealand's best tourist hotel snugly tucked away above worry level”
151 ft. Making snowman outside Hermitage. (out of rack).
174 ft. Front interior doors opened onto mountain scenery.
191 ft. “Off to Ball Hut. Rendezvous of the Tasman. The world's finest glacier”
197 ft.People on horseback, skis over shoulders.
203 ft. Woman on skis, no poles. People skiing.
243 ft. “The Lounge. Dancing, billiards, cards, music, ping-pong. Fun for all”
292 ft. '”The graceful guide skating on the artificial rink, Hermitage. Mount Cook”
415 ft. Joined by others, snowball fight.
469 ft. “Climbing Mount Kinsey. 8,000 feet of thrills”
479 ft. Climbers roped together up rock faces and snow slopes.
551 ft. Mt Cook, man arrives with gear.
583 ft. Man in bed, reads book, tries on skis. Practises ski movements, still in his pyjamas.
One of the women in the films is probably Kate Gardiner, a renowned English climber. She is seen with two famous Hermitage guides, Frank Alac (left) and Vic Williams.
The coach , known as Big Bertha, was a 90 hp fire engine adapted to carry 40 passengers. It had to be hand cranked.