New Zealand Crossing crew recap

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this week, Payson completed his latest ultra-endurance crossing challenge following his Crossing Iceland and Crossing Tasmania projects from previous years. This time, he connected three of New Zealand’s best-known routes — the Paparoa, Old Ghost, and Heaphy trails on the South Island. With a few unexpected twists, he managed to complete the 241 miles and 24,587 feet of climbing in under 24 hours. Payson sits down with the crew who helped bring the project (and the upcoming film about...

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0:00.0	I'm up on the trail. It's pitched black, sitting on this fern, just kind of enjoying quiet,
0:08.2	because at that point, you know, we're all like hunkered in this van with seven people. And it was like
0:15.7	the first bit of silence. And then I turn around and I see this like fuzzy figure in the middle of the trail and turn
0:23.4	on my light and I saw a Kiwi and then probably five minutes later pacing came down the trail
0:30.1	and I warned him about the Kiwi and just was in this really, really good headspace the whole way back.
0:36.2	It's showtime, everybody.
0:38.3	Showtime!
0:41.0	You've been living in a dream world, Neo.
0:44.7	This is the world as it exists today.
0:49.6	Life moves pretty fast.
0:51.9	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:54.3	You could miss it.
0:57.5	Listen, we talk about practice.
1:00.8	Repeat on the dude's room.
1:02.3	Donnie, you're out of your element.
1:04.6	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:08.5	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:13.2	This is the adventure stash with Payson McElvin.
1:18.1	Hi everyone and welcome back.
1:20.4	I'm just about to head to the Christchurch, New Zealand airport, and close the chapter on this year's awesome trip to Outteroah, the land of the long white cloud.
1:32.1	And yeah, we did experience plenty of clouds this trip, but it was an absolutely incredible
1:36.5	experience nonetheless. And yeah, really big success.
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