Just had to be there

April 2014

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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 […]

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