A wet walk towards the end of the world

July 2012

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July 2012

The view towards Pyramid, Southern End, Garibaldi Plateau. Photo: Hannah McGregor
Hannah McGregor follows in the steps of a lonely hermit on a remote tramping trip in Kahurangi National Park Gerald Cover was a hermit and the place he chose to escape the hurly-burly was the  in Kahurangi National Park. Towards the end of last century he set up camp to wait for the end of the world, […]

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