Category: Peak to Peak 2013
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Latest news from Axe
Greetings folks, Its been a very busy time here at AxeonEverest HQ. I wanted to share with you a quick round-up of the latest news. Pre-order funding campaign target reached for my book ‘From Peak to Peak’ Yes that’s right! $5000 was the target for me to reach in the pre-order book sales campaign for…
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What makes a great Christmas present and only costs 25 dollars?
The answer to this riddle is a copy of my new book ‘From Peak to Peak’! I launched a pre-orders campaign 7 days ago and am very proud to say we have sold 150 copies already and are 60% towards the funding target of $5000 in pre-orders! Thank you so much to those people who…
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Favorite images from Peak to Peak 2013
Well as with all things in life – they come and they go. At the end of the day all we have left are the memories. Photo’s can be very nice to help preserve the nice times and I would like to share here our favourite images from Peak to Peak 2013. Thanks to Alan…
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Peak to Peak 2013 – the movie
I hope you enjoy this short movie of ‘Peak to Peak 2013’ as much as we did putting it together….
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Peak to Peak is complete!
What an incredible feeling of relief and satisfaction it is to sit here in the safety of Mt Cook village and write this update over the final 5 days of Peak to Peak 2013. We departed the small town of Twizel on day 18, loaded with food for 7 days in a big bag on the…
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The icing on the cake?
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.” This wonderful quote by Ernest Hemingway sums up my feelings towards the last 6 days of cycling as we peddled our way down through the beautiful South Island of…
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Hard yakka: Cycling Picton to Rangiora
Day 11 of Peak to Peak was the morning after the Cook Strait crossing. After 45 minutes of wild partying the night before then going to bed at 8PM we both felt a little seedy the next morning as we jumped on the bikes and headed south. It was a beautiful day, and we were…
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A sleeping giant: Kayaking the Cook Strait
Well here we are in Picton in the South Island of New Zealand after one of the most special days of my life yesterday. We managed to paddle all the way across the Cook Strait from Makara beach in Wellington, in through the notoriously difficult Tory Channel entrance, and onwards to Picton in a 10h 10m effort. This is a…
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The calm before the storm
Hello from windy Makara beach at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand! We arrived here yesterday after 2 days and 215km of biking from Whanganui town. The biking was fairly easy as we had a tail wind most of the way! It rained like hell on the 1st day cycling, to a…
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Fair Flying Down State Highway 1!!
The guys are well on their way, having arrived and cleaned up in Whanganui, now on their bikes heading further South, already 110km down State Highway 1 at Levin as I write. Stages 1 and 2 successful, all on schedule running relatively smoothly!!! Stage 3 the cycling is going so quickly when following progress on their SPOT.…
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Peak to Peak – A Great Start!
Hello everyone, we have some updates for you on the teams progress. They have already covered a lot of ground since meeting together in Auckland; Day 1 being the successful ascent of Mount Ruapehu – (Tahurangi). At 2797m , this New Zealand’s North Islands highest mountain and one of the world’s most active volcanos and it is…
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Peak to Peak 2013 – 7 days till kick off
It’s exactly 7 days to go until the official start of ‘Peak to Peak 2013’. The final few days before any expedition are always frantic times. Packing, last-minute equipment preparations and acquisitions, tidying up with work related things so I still have a job when I return (thanks boss for the leave:-)) and spending time…
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Peak to Peak 2013 – Meet the team!
‘Peak to Peak 2013’ is not about doing an expedition with a huge budget and a lot of support. In-fact we have made a conscious effort to do away with support vehicles and vessels and instead focus on selecting a small team of super-experienced people to get the job done. It’s an interesting exercise in…
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The next adventure! Peak to Peak 2013 by crampons, kayaks and bicycles!
The what? ‘ Peak to Peak 2013’ is an attempt at a 1300km traverse from the highest point of the North Island of New Zealand (Tahurangi/Mt Ruapehu) to the highest point in the South Island of New Zealand (Aoraki/Mt Cook). The journey to be undertaken completely by human power and will include climbing, kayaking and…
Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson 