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Witness History: Creating New Zealand's national walking trail

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18/05/2023 GMT

Creating New Zealand's national walking trail

BBC World Service - Witness History, Creating New Zealand's national walking trail

Geoff Chapple's vision was to create New Zealand's national walking trail

In 2011, Geoff Chapple created a 3,000 km long walking trail in New Zealand. It was called Te Araroa.

In 2011 a 3,000 km long walking trail was opened in New Zealand. 

Geoff Chapple had spent years lobbying for the creation of Te Araroa. He’d written articles in newspapers and tested out routes in the country's rugged landscape.  

The process of exploring where it could go sometimes put him in danger as he tells Alex Collins.

(Photo: Geoff wading in the Waipapa River in the far north of New Zealand while on the Te Araroa trail. Credit: Amos Chapple)

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