You need your wits about you on the marble karst of Mt Owen – a fall would require surgery or a body bag. I didn’t care
- Guardian writers and readers describe their favourite place in New Zealand’s wilderness and why it’s special to them
The first time I walked up Mount Owen, I horrified my boyfriend by curling up beneath one of its famous water-riven karst outcrops and insisting I needed to sleep. We’d broken up six months before, and had just gotten back together to give it another go. That morning, we were both questioning our life choices.
The previous day had been fine – a decent seven hours of walking, climbing a ridge through mountain beech, sidling along a rocky cliff streaming with water, and clambering up a dry riverbed to Granity Pass Hut, a simple 12-bunk alpine hut just past the treeline.
Naomi Arnold is a senior longform journalist at RNZ and author of Southern Nights, a story of New Zealand astronomy
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