From Snow to Ash: Solitude, soul-searching and survival on Australia's toughest hiking trail

From Snow to Ash: Solitude, soul-searching and survival on Australia's toughest hiking trail
ISBN-10
0733645291
ISBN-13
9780733645297
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2020-08-25
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Author
Anthony Sharwood

Description

At the start of the hellish, fiery Australian summer of 2019/20, Walkley Award-winning journalist and suburban dad Anthony Sharwood set off on a journey. Abandoning his post on a busy news website to clear his mind, he solo-trekked the Australian Alps Walking Track, Australia's most gruelling and breathtakingly beautiful mainland hiking trail, which traverses the entirety of the legendary High Country from Gippsland in Victoria to the outskirts of Canberra. The journey started in a blizzard and ended in a blaze. Along the way, this lifelong lover of the mountains came to realise that nothing would ever be the same - either for him or for the imperilled Australian Alps, a landscape as fragile and sensitive to the changing climate as the Great Barrier Reef.

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