High above the raging Shotover River is the Skippers Canyon Road creeps along the face of Skippers Canyon. Our guide Willy was a very experienced driver and told us not to look down.

The road was built during the gold rush, when a precarious pack track was the only access to Skippers township and the Upper Shotover diggings. Hundreds of miners made the rugged landscape home back in 1862. ⁸
Reference: nzrentalcar.co.nz/history blog

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