Thirty years ago, Richard and Kevin Ackerley took 125 days to travel from the North Island’s East Cape to Fiordland’s West Cape, an expedition described as ‘one of the greatest wilderness journeys ever done in New Zealand’. Richard Ackerley started young, eagerly devouring stories about veteran Kiwi mountaineers. His youthful reading sparked an ambition to […]
About the author
Ray Salisbury
Ray Salisbury is an author and photographer living in Nelson with his wife and cat. He studied design and photography and has been contributing to Wilderness since 1997. His books include Tableland: The history behind Mt Arthur and EPIC: Adventures across Aotearoa. Ray began tramping with a camera more than 50 years ago and has visited over 500 backcountry huts.
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