Australian Traveller

on thin ice

THE OLDEST NATIONAL PARK in Tasmania doubles as the place where, in the 1920s, winter sports were first popularised in the state. An intrepid bunch of ski pioneers would set out into the highland snow of Mount Field National Park with skis that were often fashioned by hand, and by 1926 the pastime

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