Climbing onto the summit of Tara Tama with the ridge route traversed behind. Photo: Pat Barrett

The best trip on Topo50 map BV20 – Otira

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A remote, high, moderately difficult trampers’ peak in Arthur’s Pass National Park.

Here is the heart of Arthur’s Pass National Park, and it contains all the landscapes for which the park is famous: huge braided riverbeds, lofty snow-capped and sometimes glaciated mountains, beech forests in the east and rainforests in the west, tranquil alpine lakes, giant cascades and beautiful river flats. These features have led me back […]
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