Shotover Canyon Swing
Cliff-top rope swing with a sixty-metre freefall into a sweeping arc high above a river canyon.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Shotover Canyon Swing near Queenstown starts with a set of numbers on a cliff ledge that do not seem to add up. It follows two climbers, Hamish Emerson and Chris Russell, who spent years jumping off cliffs for fun before deciding in two thousand and two to turn the habit into a business, with nothing anywhere in the world to copy. Along the way it touches on the bungy town they were building in, and what jumpers keep saying afterwards.
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