Adventure Magazine

Chasing Water falls

“The cuts from the bracken were starting to sting, and I was beginning to lose my grip on the sheer bank. As Mark held my feet in place with his hands, I took a last leap of faith and launched myself upwards towards the sole cabbage tree that had managed to take hold on a tiny ledge beside the waterfall. With my arms wrapped around the tree, I heard my husband's enthusiastic voice. “So, what do you think? Should we do it?”

Laurel told us the story of how their dream of developing NZ first waterfall via ferrata became a reality, as we made our way to the practice area of Wild Wire.

The story goes something like this. Laurel, a glaciologist from Canada, met her adventuring Kiwi husband,

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