Perfect conditions at South Crater on a moonlight tramp of the Tongariro Alpine Crossing. Photo: Mike Heydon/Jet Productions

Can’t fight the moonlight

September 2018

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In which Hazel Phillips does the Tongariro Moonlight Crossing and hallucinates a dancing gnome on Whakapapa

Sometimes the best trips are born out of someone advising you not to do it. I don’t mean in a safety sense – safety is no accident, after all – but in the sense of knowing there’s an obstacle and being able to overcome it.  I’d long been captivated by the idea of doing the […]
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