Trailblazers

January 2012

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Geoff Chapple
Alfred Hamish Reed Author and publisher, Auckland Alfred Hamish Reed MBE, was New Zealand’s original ultra-distance walker and is the man responsible for popularising the romantic ideal of travelling the length of the country on foot. During a six-month period between 1960-61, Reed walked from the lighthouse at Cape Reinga to Bluff, not bad for […]

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