Jess Charlesworth, Inside the Inversion (PLACES WILDERNESS 2024)

After experiencing radiant, winter sunshine that morning at Luxmore Hut, we started descending back home into the basin, through the inversion layer which had been lingering for weeks. Saying our final goodbyes to the light. This was after one of the strongest high-pressure systems on record in New Zealand, that ensured that the thick fog sprawling over Te Anau didn’t move an inch and made us appreciate the warmth even more.

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