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Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

By Hazel Phillips

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One afternoon, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the hills. She then spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full-time job.

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ISBN 9780995135451
On Sale Date 09/06/2022
No. Of Pages 256
Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) 234x153mm
Publisher Massey University Press

One afternoon, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the hills. She then spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full-time job. As she ranged from Arthur's Pass and the Kaimanawa Forest Park to the Ruahine Range and Fiordland, she had her share of danger and loneliness, but she also grew in confidence and backcountry knowledge. Her story of this solo life is an absorbing blend of adventure and humour, combined with her research into tales from the past of ambition and death in the mountains. She also casts a feminist eye over the challenges women climbers and explorers faced. Full of pluck, courage and resourcefulness, this book is for all those who long to breathe the mountain air and hear the call of the kea.

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This is a tale for our time.

Sue - June 2022

After several years of upheaval and uncertainty in these strange times many people have participated in the ‘great resignation’. A time of re-thinking many aspects of our lives and making changes with a fresh, new vision – not all of this is negative, instead, great new ideas, creativity and fearless endeavours have followed. This is what Hazel Phillips did… she closed her laptop and headed for the hills… “Hazel spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full-time job. As she ranged from Ruapehu and Arthur’s Pass to the Ruahine Range and Fiordland, she had her share of danger and loneliness, but she also grew in confidence and backcountry knowledge. Full of pluck, courage and resourcefulness, and peppered with stories from our backcountry history, this book is for all those who long to wade through emerald rivers and breathe mountain air.”