Four places where the worst of names offer the best of tramping New Zealand’s backcountry is full of cautionary names: Mt Awful, Desperation Pass, Big Hellfire Beach, Barrier Falls and Bledisloe (Bloody Slow) Gorge to name but a few. However, not many promise so little pleasure as the name ‘misery’. Visits to two places called […]
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