Elizabeth Rapsey walked the Te Araroa Trail with her parents and seven-year-old brother. Photo: Jorinde Rapsey

Little legs log big miles

April 2019

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At nine years old, Elizabeth Rapsey is one of the youngest people to walk the Te Araroa Trail (the youngest is her seven-year-old brother Jonathan). On reaching Queenstown in mid-February, she chatted with Alistair Hall about her journey so far.

Whose idea was it to walk the Te Araroa Trail? Daddy’s. It was sort of a joke at first and then we actually thought it over a bit more and then it was the right season to plan it and then we just started doing it. What’s it like to walk 20km or more each […]
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