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Thursday, 20 May 2021, 11:23 am
Visitors to Aoraki/Mount Cook next weekend (29-30 May)
will have the chance to participate in the Hermitage
Hotel’s ‘Hike 5 for Hillary’, an initiative coinciding
with Everest Day to raise funds for The Himalayan
Trust.
Saturday 29 May marks the day Sir Edmund
Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay successfully completed the
first ascent of Mt Everest. The Himalayan Trust launched
Everest Day to acknowledge this great achievement, celebrate
the connection between New Zealand and Nepal and raise money
for communities in the Everest region.
‘Hike 5 for
Hillary’ will see participants donate $5 in exchange for a
bespoke passport style booklet with five hikes listed
Discover Taranaki’s Surf Highway 45 Keep a snowcapped Mt Taranaki on your left on a journey from New Plymouth to Hawera, and you can’t go wrong. Hopefully, the maunga’s perfect volcanic peak will be cloud-free as you negotiate Taranaki’s Surf Highway, taking time to detour down side roads to the skeletal remains of the SS Gairloch shipwreck just south of Ōakura, or the Cape Egmont Lighthouse at Pungarehu on Taranaki’s western-most point. Look forward to brisk westerlies and a winter Tasman swell rolling in all the way from Australia.
Don’t miss Two of regional New Zealand’s best galleries and museums, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth, and the Tawhiti Museum in Hāwera.
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Brook Sabin
This three-hour guided walk and helicopter trip works out at $130 per person, which is surely the best value heli-hike in New Zealand.
When you look back at your life, there will be a few thousand moments that will never leave your brain. Somehow, a memory superglues itself inside your head, despite 11 million bits of information each second flowing through the brain. So, these moments need to be very special to stay with you forever – and this trip had one of them.
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Walking over a small hill to reveal Lake Pūkaki. I m on Glentanner Station, a spectacular High Country farm in the Mackenzie region. It has a population of 5,000 – and these sheep have the best view in New Zealand.