Eight days solid in the remote, primeval, temperate rainforest of South West Fiordland. Meet the Dusky Track. Find out what you’re letting yourself in for, and you shouldn’t need choppering out.
In early 2005, I registered the wildvista.com and wildvista.co.uk domain names. This was not long after I’d spent the best part of a year in New Zealand, latterly working, but having spent the first five months trekking (or tramping as the Kiwis have it) throughout this stunning country.
During that period, I explored landscapes as diverse as the 2500m ice-encrusted volcanic cone of Taranaki and the pristine temperate rainforests of remote Fiordland. With the best part of half-a-year unfettered by a full-time job and the associated frustrations and minutiae of the daily nine-to-five, I really got under the skin of New Zealand. And New Zealand got under my skin.