Golden kiwi adventures

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Year
2000
Reference
236293
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
2000
Reference
236293
Media type
Audio
Duration
00:34:57
Credits
RNZ Collection
National Radio (N.Z.) (estab. 1986, closed 2007), Broadcaster
Ryan, Kathryn, Interviewer
Guide Rangi (b.1897, d.1970), Speaker/Kaikōrero

A variety of brief interview excerpts from courageous, famous New Zealanders.

1. {Unidentified male} talks about how and why Whale Watch operations began in 1989.

2. An {unidentified male} who's completed the Coast to Coast, Mountain to the Sea, the Wild Challenge, the Peak to Peak and the Southern Traverse is interviewed by Kathryn Ryan.

3. An {unidentified elderly male} interviewee describes the treacherous conditions he encountered as his yacht hit storms in the Pacific Ocean, half way between America and New Zealand.

4. An {unidentified male} describes conditions and crew rapport aboard a waka that hit storms about a week out on their journey in the Pacific Ocean.

5. An {Unidentified male} recalls his school's preparations to hide tanks, supplies and themselves from a retreating and destructive [Gourmantine army]. Once the Liberation Army arrived, they set off with Max Wilkinson of Wellington to the Yeman oil fields

6. {Same unidentified male} tells why he writes about China.

7. Narrator tells the story about the famous Ōtago whaler and business man, Johnny Jones.

8. {Unidentified male} describes how Jones acquired the whaling station based at the mouth of the Waikouaiti river, a place now called Karitane, and worked it until 1843 when the scarcity of whales closed it down. Jones had a monopoly on supplies to the community and was known well for his abusive temper.

9. {Unidentified reporter} describes Jean Batton as she lands in New Zealand. Jean Batton’s speech following the fastest flight made across the Tasman “in the history of the world.”

10. Jean Batton describes how remote New Zealand was prior to radio and TV, in the days when only shipping lines connected the Dominions. She explains her studies began in 1930 and included meteorology, navigation and air pilotage.

11. Sir Edmund Hilary speaks about the importance of fear and challenge. He describes the climbing of Everest as satisfying and was taken by surprise when the media made Tensing and he into heroes which generated a lot of public interest.

12. {Unidentified male} speaks about how his mountaineering team were the first New Zealanders to climb K2 and probably the first to climb both the hardest and highest summits in the world, twice in once year.

13. {Unidentified male} describes how he lowered his mate into a crevasse in order to bury him.

14. {Unidentified male} talks about mentally and physically preparing for an expedition, the cost of the expedition, and previous and future travels.

15. {Unidentified male} mountaineer relays from the top of Mount Everest.

16. Radio news announcement from Prime minister Sydney Holland that Hilary had reached the top of Mount Everest.

17. Narrator describes the story of Tom Fyffe and George Graham’s first attempt to climb Mount Cook.

18. Narrator continues the story of climbers, Fyffe and Graham as they cross Green Saddle to the top of Aorangi.

19. Guide Rangi from Whakarewarewa talks about how and why she started guiding.