Forgotten huts

May 2025

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Empress Hut, at head of Hooker Glacier, sits in the shadow of Aoraki Mt Cook. Photo: Alastair McDowell
Old trampers never die, they just trail away. What happens to old huts when they pass their use-by date? Wilderness visits a handful of old huts that have been renovated or repositioned at new spots to be ready for their own twilight years.  Empress Hut, Aoraki Mt Cook Canterbury Mountaineering Club built this hut on the Empress Glacier […]

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