Losing the trail

December 2013

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December 2013

Traversing scree en route to Mt Gladstone in the Kaikoura Range. Photo: Christian Martin
The explorative days of Charlie Douglas and Thomas Brunner might be in the distant past, but opportunities for adventure still abound in the New Zealand bush, as Christian Martin discovers on a breadth of the country traverse. Darkness approached as we continued our slow ascent of the beech-clad ridge towards Mount Faraday. At bushline, the […]
Alistair Hall

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