Victoria University of Wellington Tramping Club was founded in 1921 and has had thousands of members over the last 100 years. It recently received a collection of documents from a previous club member, the late Michael Murray, who explored with the club in the 1940s.

The documents included editions of the club magazine from the 50th and 75th anniversaries, two editions of the newsletter from 1946 and 1947, and a booklet written by a member about their tramping club experiences.

One trip mentioned is an adventure to Wilkin Valley in Christmas 1945. Club members joined a summer camp run by the Otago section of the Alpine Club to climb several peaks: Mts Jumbo, Aeolus, Kure, Pollux, Louis, Ragan and Turner.

The trip report says that Lake Wānaka was reached “amazingly quickly and amazingly uncomfortably” from Wellington.