Mostly you will know it when you’re just halfway through: this one’s not worth the effort. Harper Pass Track in Arthur’s Pass to Windy Point on the road to Lewis Pass: a journey I give the fingers to. A few friends do, too. We’ve even been known to give fingers from a plane if we […]
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Hazel Phillips
Hazel Phillips is an alpine adventurer and the author of Fire & Ice, Solo, and Great Hearts. A firm believer that ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’, she’s passionate about representation in the outdoors. She is a self-confessed Ruapehu addict, and she’s never met a topo map she didn’t get along with.
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Stupid tramping
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