Reliving the real first crossings

August 2021

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Nic Low retraced his ancestor’s footsteps through the Southern Alps and rediscovered a way of tramping now lost but which he believes could one day return.

In his book Uprising, tramper Nic Low brings alive the walking culture of pre-European Māori who had spread throughout the South Island and traded with one another from coast to coast. All the crossable passes had been used and named for centuries before Europeans claimed ‘first’ crossings and naming rights. In an interview on the […]
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