Dorothy McHaffie, a trainee midwife from Christchurch, went into the Arthur’s Pass area alone and was never seen again. Photo: Hamilton City Libraries – HCL_13809

The mystery of Miss Dorothy McHaffie

October 2022

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On the trail of a Christchurch woman who disappeared in 1929 – in circumstances shrouded with mystery as thick as the Arthur’s Pass mists themselves – one writer considers her own mortality.

I arrived at Arthur’s Pass with a bagful of personal trauma and a list of tramping objectives. The list was split into two columns: on the left, the stuff I’d been too chicken to do; on the right, easy day walks that could form ‘active recovery’ should I succeed with a chicken objective and deserve […]
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