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A sad Tararua tale of the usual sorts of reasons

Posted on 10 July, 2018 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

I’ve held off writing much about the November 2016 accident in the Tararua, near Alpha Hut, where two people died. There hasn’t seemed to have been much new to write about which I haven’t already covered previously in this forum. … Continue reading →

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Another two too many in the Tararua Range

Posted on 17 April, 2018 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Two deaths occurred near Alpha Hut in the Tararua, in late 2016. I didn’t write about them at the time, but today Stuff published an article regarding the Coroner’s investigation. The men were attempting to walk the standard Neill-Winchcombe circuit. … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on another Tararua rescue

Posted on 31 March, 2018 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

The Southern Crossing of the Tararuas has been in the news a few times lately. Shaun Barnett wrote this nifty description of the Southern Crossing for the April 2018 edition of Wilderness Magazine, although a feature on the Tararua Range … Continue reading →

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A fuller narrative of the Taranaki alpine tragedy

Posted on 8 October, 2017 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

In 2013 I wrote briefly about the (then) recent alpine tragedy on Taranaki. A very detailed, and interactive, report about that event has now been published by Stuff. The article is sourced from multiple in-depth interviews with people directly involved. … Continue reading →

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Media fanning the flames of regulation

Posted on 29 June, 2017 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Details are still thin, but it’s sad to learn of another death on Mt Taranaki. Not much detail has yet been released, except that an accident appears to have occurred somewhere in the vicinity of Ambury Bluff and Humphries Castle … Continue reading →

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Comparing accounts of accidents

Posted on 31 August, 2016 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

I’ve only been reluctantly following the recent winter incident on the Routeburn track, where a man slipped and fell, eventually dying. His partner stayed with him in freezing temperatures for several days as he died, then made her way slowly … Continue reading →

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A Fortunate Outcome at Kapakapanui

Posted on 25 May, 2016 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Looking towards the inner Tararuas from near Kapakapanui Peak. Late last month, two women had a very fortunate outcome in the vicinity of Kapakapanui. In the past, I’ve written multiple trip reports describing the very accessible loop walk which the … Continue reading →

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More on the Collapsing Hopuruahine Bridge

Posted on 10 October, 2015 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Today this video became very noticed in New Zealand media. It shows the moment in early September 2015 when the Hopuruahine Bridge collapsed along the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk, with four people on it. I wrote about this earlier and … Continue reading →

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Collapsing Bridges

Posted on 4 September, 2015 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Today’s news about one of the two main support cables of the Hopuruahine Bridge (on a map) giving way, along the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk (radio NZ, Stuff, NZ Herald) should be seen as very concerning. The consequence was that … Continue reading →

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Recap on the recent Milford Track accident – DOC’s Review

Posted on 21 October, 2014 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Kathryn Ryan interviewed Allan Munn this morning on Nine to Noon (Radio NZ National). Allan Munn is the Department of Conservation’s Southern Region Services Director. The interview regards changes being made following the death, in May 2014, of a person … Continue reading →

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