Fresh snow at Makino Hut. Photo: Hazel Phillips

Second hand socks and snowy tops

June 2019

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Hazel Phillips undertakes an ambitious winter traverse of the Kaweka Range, right through the heart of hunting country

Tramping can teach you a lot. Lessons I recently learned include: 1) planning a 17-day trip involving significant tops travel in the Kawekas in June is almost certain to have a failure point; 2) spending the night in a hut so cold that your sleeping bag freezes won’t necessarily end in death, but equally sleeping […]
June 2019

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Hazel Phillips

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Hazel Phillips

Hazel Phillips is an alpine adventurer and the author of Fire & Ice, Solo, and Great Hearts. A firm believer that ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’, she’s passionate about representation in the outdoors. She is a self-confessed Ruapehu addict, and she’s never met a topo map she didn’t get along with.

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