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Wild Wye Creek (Part Two) - Wye Creek Bivvy
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The rounded mound which resides on the opposite side of Lake Wakatipu to Queenstown is sometimes thought to be Cecil Pea...
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Some say if it wasn’t for foreshortening, many of the great peaks around the world would never have been climbed. This i...
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