Contents

COVER : Climbing into the teeth of a problem, Allan Uren ascends a frozen waterfall on the Wye Creek, near Queenstown. Not for the faint hearted, the sport of ice climbing has attracted a small but dedicated band of followers in the country.
CONTENTS - Features :
THE BLUE AND THE GOLD [On Dunedin’s doorstep lies a wonderful and wild stab of land whose best known inhabitants aren’t its people but its birds. Increasingly, peninsula folk are making their livings from the backs of penguins and albatrosses, rather than the sheep which plod the hills];
A PASSION FOR ICE [While most of us look forward to the balmy days of summer, ice climbers pine for the cold. Only in the depths of winter will waterfalls freeze solid enough to become their ladders to climbing nirvana];
FERNS : THE GLORY OF THE FOREST [Silver ferns, stately ponga, koru - images of ferns feature strongly as emblems of New Zealand, but what of the living plants behind the icons];
LIVING IN THE 20TH CENTURY [A new book presents 350 black-and-white photographs from the vast collections of Archives New Zealand, providing a rich evocation of life in New Zealand over the past 100 years];
CONTENTS - Departments :
GEONEWS [probing the PT boundary, rat-busting on Campbell Island]; BOOKS [2000 yearbook]; COMING UP [what’s in store];