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Unexpectedly cold weather added an extreme edge to the tough challenges of New Zealand's 1997 Southern Traverse New Zealand's toughest adventure race. Competitors had hiked, mountain hiked, abseiled and kayaked across some of the country's harshest terrain in unimaginably — and unexpectedly — fierce weather.
The 350km-long Southern Traverse is notorious amongst adventure racers for the terrain it covers through the mountains of New Zealand's South Island. Like all adventure races it is a multi-stage event, with competitors employing various methods to move between checkpoints. The Traverse has always had a secret start location and course, revealed to the competitors only at the pre race briefing.
This sixth Southern Traverse was designed by Geoff Hunt, a world-class adventure racer who has come in the top three places in both the Raid Gauloises and Eco Challenge. From experience he knew how to make a course interesting and challenging. His first move was to extend the course and add a half-day to the race time. But the real challenge this year was the unexpected harsh weather. Spring is always variable in the southern mountains, with snow a strong possibility, but nobody had predicted the ferocity of the weather that hit in the spring, making the four mountain passes and a mountain biking stage more of a challenge than had been expected.