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Get in touch — South Island Traverse

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If you're interested in following, sponsoring, joining or encouraging us, we'd love to hear from you. Once we're underway, our response time is likely to be, well, glacial so please bear with us. For any urgent questions or issues, please contact Anna Brent at ambegmont57@gmail.com.

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The expedition — South Island Traverse

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Where's the team now? Https:/ share.delorme.com/southislandtraverse. Aims of the expedition. To complete a full traverse of the South Island of New Zealand, from Farewell Spit in the north to Foveaux Strait by foot, canoe and bike. Our intended route will follow the dominant mountain ranges, and travel along the ‘spine’ of the Southern Alps, the main divide, from Nelson Lakes National Park to the Hollyford River. Preparation and training regime. On top of regular tramping trips, our training regime will ...

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Blog — South Island Traverse

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February 13, 2017. The Perth Odyssey, Part 2. February 13, 2017. Sorry about the long cliff-hanger. You probably thought the show had been decommissioned or gone bust. When we left you were under the headwalls of the Perth valley in the wee hours of December 22nd, huddling behind a rock with wind howling over our heads, wet and chilled, sipping on lukewarm milo because we’d lost the cooker’s wind-shield to a squall, and another had snuffed out the flame before the water reached the boil. We spent the rem...

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The team — South Island Traverse

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Our team will have four core members, who will be joined by various others for sections along the way. All members have considerable experience in New Zealand’s backcountry, and each will bring particular qualities and strengths to the team. All have been trampers since childhood. Alexis, Allan and Lydia grew up in Dunedin and have an intimate knowledge of the southern South Island. Mark (28) is a Wellingtonian who discovered a passion for mountaineering while studying at Otago. Now back in Wellingto...

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Route — South Island Traverse

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We have given ourselves a window of 4 months, or 120 days, to complete the traverse. Setting out from Farewell Spit on November 1st 2016, we will travel southward and hope to reach the south coast near Tuatapere by March 1st 2017. Our route will take us through many different types of landscapes, including tracked and untracked sections and lowlands and mountains, and we will change our style of travel, and the equipment we carry along the way. We would like to do this first section in ‘fast and light’ s...