Tongariro National Park. Photo: iStock

Traversing Tongariro’s Bermuda Triangle

December 2022

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Te Tatau Pounamu is a wilderness area – or ‘remote experience zone’ – next to Tongariro National Park. And, as with all good wilderness areas, it seems to be the great unknown.

I hastily put together a tramping adventure for a buddy keen to go bush after a long spell in Auckland’s lockdown. He had only two requirements: 1) avoid humanity; 2) light a fire and watch some Bush TV. I had two KPIs: 1) eat righteous snacks; 2) go through the intriguingly named Te Tatau Pounamu […]
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