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Adventure Magazine
Mataio: The Master Waterman
Mataio and I met some years back briefly, and via the magic of social media we have kept in touch. I have watched as he has taken on every watercraft that is wind or wave propelled. He is without doubt ‘the master waterman’. A man as comfortable in the water as on dry land. As you will read it is his life’s passion. Mataio is Tahitian, and I have left his answers as he wrote them, if they are a little difficult to understand try reading with a French accent and all will become clear!
3 min |
December 2018/January 2019
Adventure Magazine
Brian Grugg Wakeskater
Wakeskater Brian Grubb has tackled snow streams in Sarajevo and Filipino rice fields during his amazing career on the water, however his latest adventure is the best yet after he travelled to Jordan to take on the mighty Wadi Al-Hidan canyon. Here is all you need to know:
1 min |
December 2018/January 2019
Adventure Magazine
The Totum Pole
Trying to squeeze a right-angled block of rock hard enough to hold all of your weight is no trivial task. It demands a Herculean effort in an absurd position - imagine trying to hold yourself on to the adjacent sides of a refrigerator using only your hands.
6 min |
December 2018/January 2019
Adventure Magazine
Alpine Huts Of Mount Cook
Aoraki/ Mount Cook really does have something for everyone.
2 min |
December 2018/January 2019
Adventure Magazine
A Story With Bite
Humanity has always feared what we do not understand.
4 min |
December 2018/January 2019
Adventure Magazine
Riders On The Storm
Riders On The Storm.
9 min |
August - September 2016
Adventure Magazine
In Pursuit With Peter Mather
On an expedition to a remote North Western corner of Canada, Peter Mather found out about the hardships of a winter expedition. As an adventurous conservationist and photojournalist, Peter had long known about the annual Porcupine Caribou migration and his dream was to capture the perfect photo of them on their annual journey. In order to get there however he faced a daunting ski expedition that would test his physical and mental limits. We spoke to Peter about his story 'In Pursuit' and what happened when he was faced with a 120km ski expedition he wasn’t expecting.
4 min |
June - July 2019
Adventure Magazine
Urban Business
In the 1960s The Alliance Freezing Company (Southland) Limited pioneered the development of freeze-drying food in New Zealand to reduce its weight and extend its shelf life, supplying products to adventurers like Sir Peter Blake for Lion New Zealand’s, “Round the World” yacht race and the army.
3 min |
June - July 2019
Adventure Magazine
Urban Motivation
Being not far away from my 61st birthday, I thought my days of rafting customers on the Grade 5 section of the Rangitikei River were over. Recently, that has proved not to be the case.
3 min |
June - July 2019
Adventure Magazine
Road Trippin
Thick bamboo and trees heavy with guava droop down over the highway that slices through the spine of New Caledonia’s mainland, Grand Terre.
4 min |
June - July 2019
Adventure Magazine
Urban Nutrition
THE HUMBLE MUSHROOM
5 min |
June - July 2019
Adventure Magazine
All Women All Spirited All Adventure
Before my time being the Event Manager of the Spirited Women – All Women’s Adventure Race, I was recruited into a Spirited Women team in 2018 due to the injury of one of their team members.
4 min |
August - September 2019
Adventure Magazine
In Praise Of Adventure Women
My hiking partner and I were somewhere above 10,000 feet. We had made it to the saddle of the continental divide in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The half-way point.
8 min |
August - September 2019
Adventure Magazine
Luuka Jones White Water
Luuka Jones began kayaking on the banks of the Wairoa River, in her home town of Tauranga. Working in the adventure park in Waimarino, in exchange for kayaking lessons, exposed her to white water paddling and she loved it. Going on trips with friends and playing around on the river, she was unaware that this love would ake her a three time Olympian. Mike Dawson caught up with Luuka to find out more...
8 min |
August - September 2019
Adventure Magazine
Te-Araroa Walk
I took this photo moments before the rain began, blissfully unaware of the challenges we were about to face.
3 min |
August - September 2019
Adventure Magazine
Suze Kelly - Survival On Everest
Being caught in an avalanche is not something anyone would like to experience, however being caught in an avalanche on the highest mountain in the world is beyond terrifying. On 25th April, 2015, Wanaka based Kiwi, and General Manager of Adventure Consultants, Suze Kelly, was in Camp 1 when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook the mountain killing 9000 people in Nepal and causing a huge avalanche that ran straight through base camp. The avalanche claimed the lives of at least 22 people.
4 min |
April - May 2019
Adventure Magazine
Sergio Cosme- Helping Other's Survive
Portuguese resort Nazaré is home to some of the biggest waves in the world from October to March and jet-ski pilot Sérgio Cosme is one of the people who makes sure big-wave surfers end up safely back on dry land each time.
1 min |
April - May 2019
Adventure Magazine
Tararua Ranges
My first tramp in the Tararua ranges was along the famed ‘Jumbo Circuit’ in 2017. It was a misty experience, with no views and dense fog hiding those incredible views I’d longed to see up here.
3 min |
April - May 2019
Adventure Magazine
Lucky Charms
One moment, I was comfortably scrambling up the side of a mountain in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA. The next, I was knocked down by falling rock and lost consciousness.
9 min |