Revealing the great unknown

February 2020

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February 2020

Author and outdoorsman Geoff Spearpoint has shared his love of the Southern Alps in a new book The Great Unknown.  What is The Great Unknown?It has multiple meanings, really.  It is a metaphor for heading outdoors, discovering adventures, new places, new insights into ourselves. But for me, the name connects us to earlier trampers and […]
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