Scaling the corporate world from a mountain top

Scaling the corporate world from a mountain top
Hazel Phillips on the way to Ball Hut near Tasman Glacier. (Image: Supplied)
Greg Hurrell
In 2016, Hazel Phillips was sick of Auckland and sick of being chained to a desk 40 hours per week. For the next three years, the former journalist lived out of a backpack, while holding down a new full-time job in corporate communications. The weekends were spent tramping and climbing in the backcountry – mostly alone.She chronicles that life in her book: Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand. Each Monday morning, Phillips would tramp out to a road end and find somewhere with a mobile signal to start the working...

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