Environment / West Coast

Talk the Walk: The Paparoa Track

15:16 pm on 10 August 2018

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New Zealand is soon to get its 10th Great Walk - The Paparoa track. Work is nearly done on the 55 kilometre track. it was the families of the 29 men who died in the Pike River Mine disaster in November 2010 who pushed for the track to be created, it will include the Pike29 Memorial Trail.

DOC's Paparoa Track project director , Tom Hopkins tells us about this new multi day walk and the incredible landscapes that are traversed.