Introduction
1 The Wairau
2 The Clarence / Waiau Toa
3 The Waiau Uwha
4 The Hurunui
5 The Waimakariri
6 The Rakaia
7 The Rangitata (Rakitata)
8 The Waitaki
9 The Clutha / Mata-Au
10 The Hollyford / Whakatipu Ka Tuka
11 The Arawhata
12 The Waiatoto (Waitoto)
13 The Okuru (Opuka)
14 The Haast / Awarua
15 The Karangarua
16 The Cook / Weheka
17 The Waiho (Waiau)
18 The Whataroa
19 The Whanganui
20 The Hokitika
21 The Arahura
22 The Taramakau
23 The Grey / Mawheranui
24 The Buller / Kawatiri
Glossary
Endnotes
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A mixture of safe but also of extremely challenging walks, tramps
and rugged climbing activity in a time when exploring New Zealand
is extremely important and beneficial in every way.
Colin Heinz has been an active tramper and climber for over fifty
years. He grew up in Cobden on the South Island's west coast. Its
lofty mountains, lush native bush, and stories about gold
prospectors and other explorers enticed him into the backcountry
and fostered complementary interests in history and geology.
Colin was educated at Greymouth High School, Victoria University in
Wellington, and the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin,
which he graduated from in 1972. After two years as an intern in
Auckland and two years in general practice in Northland and the
United Kingdom he became a specialist anaesthetist and worked in
Christchurch for 40 years until his retirement.
Tramping was a great way for him to unwind from work and introduce
his children to the bush and mountains that became so familiar to
him when he was growing up. His interest in history was nurtured by
family stories going back three generations in Westland and
Canterbury and further back to Australia and Western Europe.
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