Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : The IMPOSSIBLE RACE : Twenty-one people set out on the toughest ultra race in the country? Will anyone finish?
CONTENTS : Departments : EDITORIAL -- VIEWFINDER Nelson bush fire -- GeoNEWS -- PROFILE Eliza McCartney -- FACTS OF LIFE Science denial -- BOOKS Historic Sheep Stations of New Zealand, Ajax the Kea Dog -- HISTORY Harem skirts -- IN THE FIELD -- ON REFLECTION Remembering Mary Oliver.
CONTENTS : Features :
THE ENDLESS RACE : Can anyone finish the 190-kilometre high-country navigational challenge known as the Revenant?
GRAVE MATTERS : Death was once a constant presence, but it has become separated from daily life. What have we lost?
DEEP HISTORY : Beneath the waters of Lake Waikaremoana is a lost world, a 2000-year old tableau of the lake’s surprising origin.
ROAD TO RECOVERY : Takahe numbers are rising by 10 per cent a year. The problem now is where to put them.