Sir Edmund Hillary

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• Players learn lesson in bouncing back

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 134
  THE first few steps seem easy enough. Then the gravel path narrows as trees and scrub become denser, forming a tunnel around the boys. The steps’ wooden retainers look as if they are stacked on top of each other, disappearing around corners into more trees. Forty-five members of the national Under-20 rugby squad ...
  1 week ago

• After tragedy, outdoor pursuits centre firmly on way to recovery

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 134
  HIGH ADVENTURE: Fighting risk-averse society. When a NewsWire team visited the Outdoor Pursuits Centre early this month to report on its recovery from last year’s tragedy, a blanket ban was placed on discussing the event, ostensibly because of an upcoming coroner’s report. However, LIZ PROCTOR found it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Under-20 rugby players tackle outdoor pursuits

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 134
  Under-20 rugby players race through the Tongariro River rapids. FORTY-FIVE talented young Kiwi rugby players can rest easy after a week outside their comfort zones. The young men were under-20 players on a week-long team-building challenge at the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre in Turangi. Teams of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Where did all the Ladies go?

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 134
  This is not Ben. YOU don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone . I’m quietly contemplating sitting through a four-hour drive surrounded by oestrogen and Impulse. Talk of how hot rockers and rugby players are is not my idea of a perfect road trip, nor is having the person in the back seat wailing James ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tough way to get picked for the team

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 134
  By LIZ PROCTOR, BEN STRANG and KIMBERLEY CRAYTON-BROWN FORTY-FIVE rugby players battling it out for places in the NZ under 20s World Cup squad have been given a different kind of challenge. Rather than competing on the rugby field, the 18 and 19-year-olds have been in Tongariro National Park doing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rugby under-20s take on new frontier

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 134
  NO COMFORT: Savea (centre) paddling down the Tongariro River. SLEEPING alone under the stars was not what Julian Savea expected at rugby camp. Savea (right) and teammates Willy Ione and Mike Kainga act as anchors on the high ropes course. As part of a NZ under-20s development squad, Savea has been at ...
  4 weeks ago

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