The Robert Ridge advisory group, from left: Shaun Barnett, Daryl Stephens, Steve Savage, Shelagh Ferguson, Paul Christoffel, Mike Davies, Bevan Smith, Amanda Linklater, Thomas Salas Kostillo. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
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The Robert Ridge Route in Nelson Lakes National Park has one of the highest search and rescue incidence rates of any track in the country. Shaun Barnett joins an advisory group to examine how to make the route safer

Outside, the spring wind was keen but it was inside where I felt a real chill.  Bevan Smith had pinned several stories and coroners’ reports on the walls of Relax Shelter. Some of them made for harrowing reading. A young man and his mother, caught in snow at the head of Speargrass Creek. The mother […]
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