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Fronting Up: Tour Te Waipounamu #3 (Video)
Rob Dawson’s latest video, “Fronting Up,” follows the riders of this year’s Tour Te Waipounamu event in New Zealand, shedding a little light on what it takes to ride the length of the South Island. Watch the 90-minute video with photos here…
PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2024
Photos by Anton McGeachen
Earlier this year, I continued my obsession with the Tour Te Waipounamu when I set about filming the third edition of New Zealand’s biannual bikepacking ultra race. The event has firmly established itself on the international bikepacking calendar, and the 2024 edition promised to be the most competitive yet. After the success of my film South, which documented the inaugural edition of this race, I was keen to take a slightly different approach this time around. Fronting Up focuses on what it takes to stay in contention and ultimately make it from one end of the South Island down to the most southerly tip of the land known as Te Waipounamu. We witness the riders transcending the changing landscape through the heart of its varied interior often engulfed by its sheer scale in all its bleak, harsh, and beautiful glory.
“I think I really wanted to let it derail me in that moment, because that would be the easier thing to do…” —Lewis Ciddor
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