***Indefinitely postponed until Covid Alert Level 1***

Absentee bids will continue to be accepted, and all bidders will be notified by HVTC by email when the auction is re-scheduled.

Over 1,500 books from the late Arnold Heine’s unique collection will be sold. Mountaineering and exploration titles from across the globe feature strongly, with many out-of-print books on New Zealand’s mountaineering history, tramping, hunting, geology, ecology, conservation and culture, as well as guidebooks.

There are two places where separate parts of the collection will be sold;

Sale at the Hutt Valley Tramping Club rooms

All proceeds from this sale are being generously donated to the FMC Mountain & Forest Trust by Arnold’s widow Jan.

The sale will be at the Hutt Valley Tramping Club rooms, Birch Street Reserve, Waterloo, Lower Hutt.

• Auction of 102 lots of collectable books, (Absentee bidding is possible)
• Followed by a general book sale of the remainder

You can view the HVTC sale information sheet, which includes:

• Full venue & timing information.
• Absentee bidding information.
• Conditions of sale.
• A catalogue of the 102 auction lots.

This sale is hosted by Jan Heine, Les Molloy (Patron of FMC), Dave Bamford (NZAC) and Dennis Page (President of Hutt Valley Tramping Club). Both FMC and the FMC Mountain & Forest Trust are extremely grateful for Arnold’s services to the outdoor community and FMC, as well as Jan’s generosity in donating the proceeds to the Trust to help us continue our work.

Sale online through Colin Monteath’s Barking Mad Bookshop

A selection of very rare and collectable Polar and Himalayan books are available for purchase online through the bookshop.

About Arnold

Arnold Heine was a mountain legend, with a 64 year involvement with FMC, as executive member, president and patron. He was a dear friend to many with significant achievements through the mountains of NZ and Antarctica. Arnold passed away in October 2019. You are warmly invited to read Arnold’s obituary, written by Les Molloy and published in Backcountry, March 2020, page 30.