In December 2002, Shaun Barnett circumnavigated Tititea/Mt Aspiring and climbed the majestic mountain’s Northwest Ridge On the Volta Glacier, it’s blisteringly hot, the sun burning the snow to a blinding white. Phil has wrapped a cotton shirt around his face, leaving just an eye slit. A sheik in a desert of snow. A steep […]
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