Feeling for Daylight
The Photographs of Jack Adamson.
By Rhian Gallagher

Described as " cool, careful, daring and humorous " - Jack Adamson played a key role in early NZ mountaineering when the major peaks in the Southern Alps were first climbed.Many of the pivotal moments are documented in the photographs in this beautiful book with the early mountaineers set in the theatre of the Southern Alps.

The photographs capture the tempestuous moods of the Alps and the diversity of the topography.
Jack Adamson was born in 1867 in Timaru and he grew up in Albury at the foot of the Southern Alps.
Adamson started taking photographs when first employed at the Mt Cook Hermitage in 1889.A keen early mountaineer he was the first NZ born guide to work at Mount Cook and became manager of the Hermitage Hotel in 1893.

The book is a hardback with 157 pages of photographs and retails at $44:99. 
Available from Chapters & Verses in Timaru,  272 Stafford Street, Timaru 7910 - Tel. (03) 688 6491


Exhibition, “Feeling For Daylight: the Jack Adamson Collection” at South Canterbury Museum.