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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

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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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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