Wilderness

ON THE EDGE

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We were on the Charismatic Wall, above Milford Sound Road. There are two fully established rock-climbing routes and a bunch of half-finished ones. Wild Dykes tops out at a 23. (Wild Dykes is a 453m grade-23 mixed trad climb put up by NZ

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