Uncovering The Mystery: Climbing In New Zealand || A World Less Traveled Ep.4 

2021 for me

Please do make a guidebook for us :) I have been going there for a few years now and still get lost lol. The castle hill basin website has the problems on there and a map but a guidebook is so much better.

@@anubisiris2270 Hm, I couldn't seem to find the photos on the Castle Hill website, just a satellite map. But that might be because I'm on my phone? Personally I make topos for a website, Mobeta in Nova Scotia www.cnsmobeta.ca/ Pretty simple but I could help with the lines and numbering in illustrator.

I used to go there to take acid trips when I was younget and would constantly be running away from boulderers, they must have thought I was insane. Did you see me? Hahaha

That seems like a place you can spend your whole life exploring tbh...

I was going to ask the same question. Does anyone know the song??

The artist is BeFun. Track is 'Coming in Out'. :)

@@mtkombikombi I'm looking for the Song before this one... The one that is playing at 4:50

I went there and it was fine

@@samwoolley7 i was there too, they eat me 😭 but aniway it is beautiful! flockhill i was falling in love withe it!

Sean bailey and miho nonaka are both pretty good. 9b+ and 8c+ respectively

Pre COVID 🤗

Get real bra

In what way is people travelling and spending money outside of their countries problematic to you? Tourism isn't colonialism, in fact it's a leading industry in many poorer countries. Nothing is being ruined or exploited. Not to mention that New Zealand is a mostly-white, western nation(not exactly a "hidden place" either lmao, just not known for climbing). Now, if you want to criticize New Zealanders for taking the land and profiting off of it from indigenous peoples, that's quite a reasonable conversation. But that isn't the fault of climbers travelling, nor is travel further hurting indigenous peoples. Is it your opinion that it's only acceptable to climb and travel as a white person to historically white countries?

@@JohnSmith-uk7gy I'm Maori, you raised valid points, apart from agriculture tourism the next money earner...

@@JohnSmith-uk7gy Please note, I'm talking about companies. You pose a straw man argument by trying to make it seem I'm saying that individuals are the problem, when I so clearly call out the industry and their employees (mostly white climbers). When the outdoor industry attempts to "Uncover The Mystery Climbing In New Zealand" and only feature white climbers from the US and Europe, that's an issue and worth questioning. Companies like Epic TV, North Face, and Red Bull do it time and time again. They expose remote areas of the world so the white man can get on top of a mountain for their company. Then they'll show the remote area on video to hundred of thousands of people on the internet so consumers get inspired and buy their gear. Then companies, and people like you, try to greenwash their exploitive and exposing behaviors by saying "we spent our money here and that's good for them. Look how broke they are! We did a humanitarian thing." Throwing money at people to validate your tourism and impact is not above questioning. And if I know climbing dirt bags, they will do whatever they can to travel cheaply anyhow. Are these videos inspiring? Of course. Is tourism a good thing for most places? Absolutely! It sure beats the hell out of slimy mining or oil and gas companies exploiting beautiful areas and destroying them. But it is not above questioning and discussing the colonial nature of companies consistently exposing remote corners of the world for people to visit. That is why I simplly say, "we need to discuss this"... I'm sorry if that's a hard conversation for you. +10 Irony points for your name being John Smith.