From top: The volcanic Emerald and Blue Lakes, near the summit of Mount Tongariro, are important in local Māori culture, with brilliant colours partly caused by dissolved minerals that wash down from the nearby Red Crater; a hiker tramping through the Tongariro National Park’s alpine plains
“As an oral society, Māori wrote our stories not on paper but on the landscape itself, through place names. To walk is to learn history with your feet” Nic Low, Māori (Ngāi Tahu) author and hiker