Crews had to lay logs across deep mud to stop machinery sinking. PHOTO: JIM MCILRAITH
: Track workers’ resilience and skill ‘massive’
Crews had to lay logs across deep mud to stop machinery sinking. PHOTO: JIM MCILRAITH
: Track workers’ resilience and skill ‘massive’
A Nelmac digger operator carves out a rocky hillside track in the snow. PHOTO: TOM WOODWARD-NELMAC : Track workers’ resilience and skill ‘massive’
A Nelmac digger operator carves out a rocky hillside track in the snow. PHOTO: TOM WOODWARD-NELMAC : Track workers’ resilience and skill ‘massive’
A Nelmac crew member works a rock face in a harness. PHOTO: TOM WOODWARD-NELMAC : Track workers’ resilience and skill ‘massive’
A Nelmac crew member works a rock face in a harness. PHOTO: TOM WOODWARD-NELMAC : Track workers’ resilience and skill ‘massive’
Westreef track crews clawed and blasted the track around the edge of the Paparoa Escarpment. PHOTO: JIM MCILRAITH
: Track workers’ resilience and skill ‘massive’
Westreef track crews clawed and blasted the track around the edge of the Paparoa Escarpment. PHOTO: JIM MCILRAITH
: Track workers’ resilience and skill ‘massive’
Track workers’ resilience and skill ‘massive’
The long-awaited Paparoa Track opens this summer. Greymouth Star reporter Helen Murdoch talks to some of the builders who endured 6m of rain,...