Ball Hut with De la Beche and the Minarets watching as the sun pops over the ridge. Photo: Hazel Phillips

Ball Hut, Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park

June 2019

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Eye on the Ball

Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park is a climber’s paradise, with 19 peaks that extend higher than 3000m and 40 per cent of it glacial terrain. The park lacks tracks and huts, and much of it is inaccessible to those who don’t have technical skills and a climbing rack. There are really only two or three huts […]
June 2019

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Hazel Phillips

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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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