FROM ISOLATED TO ISOLATION

Isolation is a word we've all become very familiar with over the last couple of years. Unfortunately, due to its association with Covid, the majority of folk now think of it in a negative frame of mind. But not that long ago isolation was a word not many people thought about at all

MITCH THORN

It was reserved for us adventure fanatics, and signified an escape from the nine to five routine and busy day-to-day life. Not only is isolation something we're familiar with, but it's also something we spend our spare time in search of. Back in March of 2020 that's exactly what my mate Chris and I were doing. It doesn't get much more remote than Fiordland, down in the south of New Zealand, so isolation is something we were expecting on our drive down to Te Anau. At that time, Covid was starting to spread through Europe and the first couple of cases had found their way to New Zealand. There was very little information about it… nothing to worry about, ‘cos once we're on that chopper it won't affect us… how…

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