This month I curled up on the couch with Shaun Barnett’s new book, A Wild Life: Photographs from the backcountry of Aotearoa. His exquisite images span three decades and depict not only a life’s work but also the extraordinary diversity of our natural landscape. There’s a quiet grace to the photos, and as I turned […]
About the author
Leigh Hopkinson
Wilderness deputy editor Leigh Hopkinson spends the weekends in the hills with her whānau and weekdays as a journalist and editor. She has a Graduate Diploma of Journalism from the University of Canterbury. A keen tramper, rock climber and newbie mountaineer, she has written for magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Tasman. She’s originally from the West Coast and now lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Mt Somers via Te Kiekie Route, Hakatere Conservation Park
The Tararua’s forgotten traverse
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