Should you buy a pair of walking poles? Hazel Phillips has some thoughts on that Hi, I’m Hazel and I use walking poles. I’ve said that confession-style, because it is a confession of sorts. Until very recently, I held great disdain for walking poles and the ‘sort’ of person who used them. But recently I […]
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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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