Lines of people queuing to reach the summit of Taranaki Mounga rings alarm bells for mountain guide Chris Prudden. I recently went back to my home town of New Plymouth. The weather was brilliant; fine and clear, a large slow-moving high-pressure system producing back to back clear weather days. Taranaki, my mounga, beckoned. It’s a […]
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