SLEEPING HIGH
The sky dazzled. Colour pops of blood-orange and fuchsia-pink, rubbing into the horizon like a gaping wound in Earth’s atmosphere. Cameras clicked. Capturing an elusive sunset from Mt Pirongia, the highest point in the Waikato.
By all accounts it is notoriously difficult to get a decent, camera-worthy sunset from Pirongia’s Pahautea Hut. Clag and rain are common at 900m, not the stuff for Instagrammable photos.
But tonight was the night. The 20-bunk hut and nearby campsite was full. The photographers had been waiting since mid-afternoon and
