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Off the Beaten Track

Off the Beaten Track
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Off the Beaten Track
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Sir Ed Hillary, then in his early 50s, acts as tour guide to remote New Zealand. In the far north he receives a tokotoko (walking stick) and admires the Aupōuri people’s connection with the land. He goes bush and dives for scallops off Stewart Island, and fishes on a Hollyford sandspit. In 1971 he tackles a grand traverse of Mount Cook with Harry Ayres and other mates —  not bad for a self-described "middle-aged family man who has tried to keep himself reasonably fit". Sir Ed narrates, and hi...

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1973
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aoraki / mt cook / empress hut / cape reinga / poi / weaving / flax / aupouri / ninety mile beach / hollywood river / lake mckerrow / scallops / seaplane / stewart island / tasman bay / lynn crawford / mike gill / harry ayres / jim wilson / southern alps / waimirirangi marae / mount olivier / mt olivier / fishing / nelson / graeme dingle / grand traverse / michael gill

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