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September 2014

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The three-wire bridge over Moraine Creek in Fiordland National Park. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
There’s a river below, discoloured and violent, and you’re about four metres above it, hanging precariously onto a flimsy-seeming structure made of a few wires and struts. Every time you move, it wobbles and your pack lurches, threatening to throw you off balance. Progress requires a sort-of duck-legged manoeuvre, planting your boots at an odd […]
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