After three years and plenty of mahi, Paul and Shelley Hersey’s much anticipated guidebook The High Pathways: Mountain scrambles and snow climbs of Te Waipounamu is now available from New Zealand Alpine Club. Tell us about the guidebook and its intended audience. SH: It was an inherited project, a hit list of about 100 grade 1 […]
About the author
Leigh Hopkinson
Wilderness deputy editor Leigh Hopkinson spends the weekends in the hills with her whānau and weekdays as a journalist and editor. She has a Graduate Diploma of Journalism from the University of Canterbury. A keen tramper, rock climber and newbie mountaineer, she has written for magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Tasman. She’s originally from the West Coast and now lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Mt Somers via Te Kiekie Route, Hakatere Conservation Park
The Tararua’s forgotten traverse
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