Tramping accross the Southern Alps Part 2
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
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In february 2023 I spent three weeks hiking around Mount Aspiring National Park on the southern island of New Zealand. My plan was to walk across the Southern Alps from Wanaka, over Queenstown to Haast.
From the 11th to the 23rd I hiked the second section from Glenorchy to Haast. I hiked up the Rees River valley to Cascade Saddle. After a detour to Mount Tyndall I walked down along the West-Matukituki River and then back up the East-Matukituki River to Pearson Saddle. Here I left the marked trails and crossed over into Waiatoto River valley which I then followed down
to the Tasmanian Sea and Haast.
This scarcely narrated video shows impressions from the Glenorchy to Haast section of this hike.
Part 1
• Tramping accross the S...
Sections
00:00 Review of Part 1
02:04 Tourdescription
04:07 The hike begins
05:52 Shelter Rock Hut
08:25 Dart Hut Camp Ground
10:35 Cascade Saddle
12:56 Mount Tyndall
19:20 Cameron Flats
24:10 Rabbit Pass
27:13 Reaching Waiatoto
29:58 Bonar Flats
32:17 River Crossing at Drake Flats
34:41 Second River Crossing at Axius Flats
38:21 Third River Crossing at Long Beach
40:09 The last Day
43:12 Retrospective
Music
Herbert Pixner Projekt - Rien Ne Va Plus
Thomas J. Curran - Glow-Worms
PHILDEL - Qi
Zupfgeigenhansel - Fordre niemand, mein Schicksal zu hören
City of the Sun - Everything
Sam Hulick - I Was Lost Without You
Mark Knopfler, Evelyn Glennie - Altamira
Allen Grey - Magical World
Brad Derrick - Azura's Coast
Links
* The hiking blog from Stanley Mulvany that inspired me to pick this route:
mulvanyadventures.blogspot.com...
* The website of The Great Glenorchy Alpine Base Camp:
thegreatglenorchyalpinebaseca...
* The website of Waiatoto River Safari who gave me lift over Waiatoto river:
www.riversafaris.co.nz/
Bravo for completing a very demanding route. Some would say foolhardy for a solo trip - no wonder the guys in Glenorchy were treating you as a legend before you even started. Great to see the Waiatoto, which is a rarely visited valley. You must have been managing very well to be able to keep filming the whole trip in relentless rain. You are not straight outta office any more.
Sadly I had to go straight back into office after the trip 😀
Epic
Remarkable effort.
Wow
Thank you.
What and awesome video. I am glad you enjoyed our beautiful country. Just subscribed to your channel. All the best.
Excellent video! Well done, matey!
Dude you're an absolute legend! Thank you for documenting your journey with us and not giving up filming even after the mishaps with your lens, phone and the soul destroying weather! You were very courageous on those river crossings. Love your work man. Subscribed!
Thank you for you kind words. In hindsight I think I was a bit winey about the weather though. Three days of rain aren't that bad right? 😉
I really like Kraig Adam's hiking videos but yours are even better! Thank You for your hard work putting this trip on youtube and sharing this experience! Jim from Dallas
Kraig Adams and Harmen Hoeks channels were what inspired me to start making my own videos. But I will only be able to create one or two videos per year and I can not promise that I can hold that level of quality. But I will give my best 🙂
Amazing journey, what a beast
Great man😅nice fork song either
Amazing! What a journey! Respect for all the effort put into capturing the experience in such harsh conditions.
Thank you! 😀 All in all the weather was OK.
You are thee man "Kua pōkai whenua kē koe" and some stunning shots along the way 😍
"You have already covered the country", Is google translate correct? I am happy you liked the video!
LEGEND!
Amazing scenery - excellent job capturing such a wild and remote landscape!
Extraordinary experience--the filming and narrative were compelling. The NZ you shared was so spectacular, but your personal journey was what really made this video my favorite one of all the many NZ videos I've watched. Thanks so much for sharing. Used to live in NZ and easy to feel homesick.
I am so glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
Great video! You can tell that you put a lot of effort into it! 👍
A real adventure trip!
Westküste ist ein anderes Kaliber
I admire your effort, but I see how close you came to drowning. It could have happened the previous crossing. It doesn't take much to go wrong.
That might have happened if you attempted to cross at Long Beach, but then again, you might have just stayed on the true right of the river and smashed your way out. You were lucky there.
Unfortunately, drowning happens regularly in New Zealand. In May last year, 2023, Petr Cech drowned in the Wairoa River, which a few thousand hikers cross each year when on Te Araroa. I think he was shooting a video for CZcams, but sadly, he wasn't able to upload it. He was 46.
I sure was lucky to get the boat ride that spared me from taking the risk of another crossing.