The Remarkables
Serrated schist mountain range above a glacial lake, with a high alpine ski area and summer trails.
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Remarkables above Queenstown follows the ski field on its slopes, from a bruising first winter in nineteen eighty-five to the local businessman and former mayor who later bought into it. It touches the surveyor Alexander Garvie, who named the range in the eighteen-fifties, and the fear that the access road would scar the mountain for good. Best heard with a clear view of the ridge and the road climbing it.
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