Shaun Barnett contemplates advancing age and cold huts July 2014: the forecast was for snow above 1000m, and I imagined wandering around the slopes of Mt Taranaki, light snowflakes falling softly out of a steel-grey sky. Instead, we got only a few meagre flakes; the rest was a mixture of sleet and freezing rain. No […]
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June 2015
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