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There’s a hiking life after menopause

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Hazel Phillips is an alpine adventurer and the author of Fire & Ice, Solo, and Great Hearts.

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Hazel Phillips is an alpine adventurer and the author of Fire & Ice, Solo, and Great Hearts.

By Hazel Phillips

Perimenopause can be a difficult time for women, and some may find they no longer enjoy spending time in the outdoors. These women suggest ways to maintain your tramping mojo.

I stood at the edge of Red Crater, bleeding furiously, gripped by pain that felt like twisted barbed wire as violent lightning ripped through my abdomen. I was guiding clients on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing at the time. I shepherded them up and over, pointed out the views of the Kaimanawa Range and hoped they […]

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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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