All by myself

April 2017

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Climbing to Lake Constance involves a hairy climb up and over some bluffs. Solo tramper Andy Wyatt fell to his death here. Photo: Hazel Phillips
If your tramping companions aren’t up to the kind of trips you want to do, then you might have to start going solo. Hazel Phillips knows that predicament all too well and shares hard-won advice for aspiring solo trampers  All this outdoors stuff is a slippery slope, isn’t it? An addiction of sorts. One day you’re […]
Hazel Phillips

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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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