Just had to be there

April 2014

Read more from

April 2014

Toby Eglesfield at work beside Twelve-Mile Creek Photo: Mark Banham
The outdoor world is obsessed with action right now. It’s all about climbing up things and jumping off them, paddling around things and running across them – and trying to do it all faster than the last person. But in a quiet corner of Central Otago there’s at least one guy taking a very different […]

About the author

Will Jones

More From Out There

Similar Articles

The three trips that changed my life: Nic Low

The three trips that changed my life: Celia Hogan

A river rules my life

Trending Now

Green Point Hut, Gamack Conservation Area

The possibilities of packrafting

Every Tararua hut reviewed and ranked

The Tararua’s forgotten traverse

Mt Somers via Te Kiekie Route, Hakatere Conservation Park

Subscribe!
Each issue of Wilderness celebrates Aotearoa’s great outdoors — written and photographed with care, not algorithms.Subscribe and help keep our wild stories alive.

Join Wilderness. You'll see more, do more and live more.

Already a subscriber?  to keep reading. Or…

34 years of inspiring New Zealanders to explore the outdoors. Don’t miss out — subscribe today.

Your subscriber-only benefits:

All this for as little as $6.75/month.

1

free articles left this month.

Already a subscriber? Login Now