The walk into Gorge River, for an average person, must be challenging as it’s not just a flat beach tramp. Wish I was younger & fitter as I would like to go see Gorge River & visit your Dad & Mum at their place.
This is very inspiring....I have to know more ...I think I might be having an epiphany. One that has taken a 5-6 years of depression, drinking, drugs and failures but also some better times . I’m confident I can get out of this hole I just have to work harder. Thanks please tell your father and mother I’d love to meet them some day. ☺️
Just watched the documentary of your family.. tried to find how is your family doing now and it got me here.. hope to watch more of how you and your family is doing now... New subscriber here.. much love from the philippines..
Chris I love hearing your question & answer vids as really educates me about your unique Life at Gorge River. Would you describe your Mum & Dad as aged Hippies or just real alternative living Kiwi’s.
Thank you for your anwers to questions. It must have been an interesting upbringing and obviously helped give you the passion for what you are doing now.I hope you are really enjoying your time in the arctic!
Just curious, if you plan to have a family in the future would you also rather live in isolation during the formative years of your children? (Well, if you'll have them.) If yes, would you do anything different? Like, would you bring them to the city more often? Or would you provide them with the gadgets and electronics?
covid pandemic & crisis confirmed your father's idea of what the world specially city life does on our nature & life. Living in isolated , or better said remote area makes people healthy both physically & mentally ,they aged contended & longer, as i had seen on different documentaries. And they are safe from covid. Im also glad you visited my country.
Love hearing all abt yr life. Very very interesting. You are a good bloke and well adjusted. I am a kiwi living in Surrey uk. A world away from your kinda life. All so fascinating and interesting
Awesome video, great content! People want to know so much about Gorge river its wonderful. You have achieved a lot in your life and your sister too. No doubt you have very proud parents! Well done, you 👍. And keep these great videos coming.
Hi Chris, what do you like about the Gorge River that you miss when you’re in the city? and what do you like about the city that you miss when living in the Gorge River? You're interesting person, please continue making good contents
How Has Growing up independent and isolated affected your emotional well being ? And has building emotional relationships been a lot different to those you have now surrounded yourself with ?
Growing up like that has made me very independent and confident in myself. I am also very happy and I feel very lucky and try to bring that into all aspects of my life. I don't think building emotional relationships has been any different to other people.
Hi Chris, I chanced upon your You Tube channel a few days ago and am so pleased I did. I intend to view all your videos. In 1992 to 1994 I worked for DOC in Haast and met your parents in 1993 when I went to do maintenance work on Gorge River Hut with a fellow DOc worker Bruce Sproul . I met your father one other time in Haast and also went to his book launch. I will try and visit Gorge River another time before I get too old. A couple of questions. Do you need to pay any "rent" to DOC for occupying DOC land? And when you are filming yourself walking away from the camera do you place the camera down and then walk away to get the video shot but then need to back track to retrieve your camera? (if so that would be very time consuming). Keep up your excellent videos Chris. Maybe if I am lucky I will get to meet you one day. Regards Tomyu Hu (Christchurch).
We have an agreement with DOC to look after the hut and tracks int he local area. Have you seen my video about the actual doc hut? th-cam.com/video/Pq3_8a65auo/w-d-xo.html Its still in really good condition these days. For a few years DOC didn't look after it at all but now they do maintenance each year and we clean it up when people leave a mess throughout the year. As for filming, yes I have to put the camera down and walk away and then back. Sometimes I can get two shots I can use, one walking in each direction, other times I can only use the one shot. If I am hiking with someone else I almost always walk a lot faster than the other person (i inherited Dads long legs) so I use the time I spend waiting for the other person to set up shots, or catching up to the other person after taking a shot, or setting up or packing down my drone. The drone is nice for following shots, works the best if the weather is good. I crashed it into a mountain in Norway haha but managed to retrieve it!
We have only ever had one chicken, we have no one to looks after them when we go away. Our one pet chicken would go everywhere with us including the walk to town
How do you mine the greenstone? Is there one spot that you know has it, or do you have to look around for signs of where it could be? I'd love to see the actual mining of the greenstone from in situ!
My question is, when i visit to your island.Will i be so lonely because i didn't see any girl for company me.Second question.Do you have a mortuary in case there is death.
Hi Christian, thank you for your inspiring videos. How did your dad acquire the land to be able to live and build their house there? And can any Kiwi do the same?
Myself and a friend are contemplating and assessing tramping from Hollyford to the Cascade Mid March. Do you have any tips and does the route from Big Bay to Gorge river follow the coast .Thanks
That's awesome you should defiantly do it! From big bay to gorge you just follow the coastline the whole way except a small track behind crayfish rock and a small bluff just 1km south of gorge river if the tide is in. See my video of walking from the cascade road end to gorge to see more about that part of the hike. Also there's 2 small rivers between gorge and big bay, Hackett river and Ryan's Creek. Good campsites at each river
On your website you say your dad moved out there originally because he wanted to live sustainably. Do you guys see the irony in your family having a much larger footprint now then they would trying to live an ecological lifestyle in a city? Just the flying in and out alone... in a city they could ride a bike to the store. It's not supposed to be criticism, I'm genuinely curious how your parents think about this today. What do they think about the environmentalist populism of their time and how it's returned even stronger these days? Could it be people are being lead astray? The overpopulation problem has gotten worse and worse, but not because New Zealanders have been popping out kids.
I'm sorry but we completely disagree. A small number of people might ride their bike to the supermarket to get their food but when they get there much of the food has traveled halfway across the world wrapped in plastic using fuel before it gets ridden on their bike home. Not to mention manufacturing the bike and the building supplies to build their home (ours are all reused) and the energy to heat their home and the LPG gas to cook the food. We cook our food collected from the environment around us using wood collected from the beach. We don't even use a chainsaw, lawnmower or refrigerator. There are many different aspects to life keep in mind, a simple flight in a small plane doesn't use that much fuel, compared with most people driving everywhere each day in a city. It's very easy to focus on the obvious and forget about the rest of the things in life.
Dude, literally an underrated legend. I would love to learn some survival skills from you someday.
Cheers! Haha I hope we can some day!
For real. I’d bring my city raised wife and kids for that. What a great series of videos. Amazing lifestyle - inspiring.
@@murrayclarke2171 thank you!
Wow. You have to do more of these things. People can learn a lot from you. And you’re very matured I can say.... just wow
Ye sim working on it. I have about 6 videos filmed, 2 already edited and coming out soon
The walk into Gorge River, for an average person, must be challenging as it’s not just a flat beach tramp. Wish I was younger & fitter as I would like to go see Gorge River & visit your Dad & Mum at their place.
This is very inspiring....I have to know more ...I think I might be having an epiphany. One that has taken a 5-6 years of depression, drinking, drugs and failures but also some better times . I’m confident I can get out of this hole I just have to work harder.
Thanks please tell your father and mother I’d love to meet them some day. ☺️
I wish you luck, never give up and always look and dream about what you want and theres a good chance you can make it happen
Just watched the documentary of your family.. tried to find how is your family doing now and it got me here.. hope to watch more of how you and your family is doing now... New subscriber here.. much love from the philippines..
Thank you for watching!
I'm glad I discovered your channel :) , saludos desde México!🇲🇽
Chris I love hearing your question & answer vids as really educates me about your unique Life at Gorge River. Would you describe your Mum & Dad as aged Hippies or just real alternative living Kiwi’s.
Oh a bit of both I guess
Thank you for your anwers to questions. It must have been an interesting upbringing and obviously helped give you the passion for what you are doing now.I hope you are really enjoying your time in the arctic!
Yes I am loving ti here! But not dark enough yet! I want it to be pitch dark all the time lol
oh really? thats interesting!i guess its a different dark there anyway
@@chenoah7963 yeah here we can still see city lights so it's never pitch dark
thats a shame!
@@chenoah7963 Yeah but oh well I will have to do a properly dark winter in Antarctica sometime
Just curious, if you plan to have a family in the future would you also rather live in isolation during the formative years of your children? (Well, if you'll have them.) If yes, would you do anything different? Like, would you bring them to the city more often? Or would you provide them with the gadgets and electronics?
Just wanna say hello! A new subscriber here. I really enjoyed listening to this. Totally interesting
Welcome aboard!
i just find this channel right now and it seems good to look for
Awesome I'm glad you like it!
9:21 Yeah that answer was not what was expected.
covid pandemic & crisis confirmed your father's idea of what the world specially city life does on our nature & life. Living in isolated , or better said remote area makes people healthy both physically & mentally ,they aged contended & longer, as i had seen on different documentaries. And they are safe from covid.
Im also glad you visited my country.
What is your country?
Yes they have been almost uneffected by it actually
I grrrfow up so fast 🤣🤣🤣
😂
Love hearing all abt yr life. Very very interesting. You are a good bloke and well adjusted. I am a kiwi living in Surrey uk. A world away from your kinda life. All so fascinating and interesting
Awesome video, great content! People want to know so much about Gorge river its wonderful. You have achieved a lot in your life and your sister too. No doubt you have very proud parents! Well done, you 👍. And keep these great videos coming.
Thank you for your kind words! Yes they are proud of us! More videos coming for sure!
Hi Chris, what do you like about the Gorge River that you miss when you’re in the city? and what do you like about the city that you miss when living in the Gorge River?
You're interesting person, please continue making good contents
Whoa bro your dad's art is good az,And the carvings you guys do also,I love how your family are very resourceful
Thank you! Yes that is very important to us
@@WildKiwiAdventurer Algoods bro!God bless you long family,May the Lord always protect you all,You people are pure or close to it!
Thanks for replying to my question ! Just wondering if you have you seen the northern lights yet in Norway?
Yes i have! Check out my latest video and I have a short timelaps on it of the northern lights. Not the best, hope to get better footage soon!
I love this so much. Thank you
How Has Growing up independent and isolated affected your emotional well being ? And has building emotional relationships been a lot different to those you have now surrounded yourself with ?
Growing up like that has made me very independent and confident in myself. I am also very happy and I feel very lucky and try to bring that into all aspects of my life.
I don't think building emotional relationships has been any different to other people.
WildKiwiAdventurer , did you receive the common childhood inoculations and if so, when?
Handsome 😍
Thank you!
Kiss him.
Hi Chris, I chanced upon your You Tube channel a few days ago and am so pleased I did. I intend to view all your videos. In 1992 to 1994 I worked for DOC in Haast and met your parents in 1993 when I went to do maintenance work on Gorge River Hut with a fellow DOc worker Bruce Sproul . I met your father one other time in Haast and also went to his book launch. I will try and visit Gorge River another time before I get too old. A couple of questions. Do you need to pay any "rent" to DOC for occupying DOC land? And when you are filming yourself walking away from the camera do you place the camera down and then walk away to get the video shot but then need to back track to retrieve your camera? (if so that would be very time consuming).
Keep up your excellent videos Chris. Maybe if I am lucky I will get to meet you one day.
Regards Tomyu Hu (Christchurch).
Hi Tomyu! Thanks for saying hi! Dad would remember you for sure if you were at the gorge working on the hut.
We have an agreement with DOC to look after the hut and tracks int he local area. Have you seen my video about the actual doc hut? th-cam.com/video/Pq3_8a65auo/w-d-xo.html Its still in really good condition these days. For a few years DOC didn't look after it at all but now they do maintenance each year and we clean it up when people leave a mess throughout the year. As for filming, yes I have to put the camera down and walk away and then back. Sometimes I can get two shots I can use, one walking in each direction, other times I can only use the one shot. If I am hiking with someone else I almost always walk a lot faster than the other person (i inherited Dads long legs) so I use the time I spend waiting for the other person to set up shots, or catching up to the other person after taking a shot, or setting up or packing down my drone. The drone is nice for following shots, works the best if the weather is good. I crashed it into a mountain in Norway haha but managed to retrieve it!
Super info. Inspiring. Yes the over population thing...anyway a lot of people get it
Thanks for the comment!
Quick question: do you guys have/used to have chickens for eggs at Gorge River?
We have only ever had one chicken, we have no one to looks after them when we go away. Our one pet chicken would go everywhere with us including the walk to town
Youd been in our country wwow 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Yes I loved it there, did you see my other videos from Philippines?
How do you mine the greenstone? Is there one spot that you know has it, or do you have to look around for signs of where it could be? I'd love to see the actual mining of the greenstone from in situ!
We find it on the beach just in rocks, very very very hard to find!
My question is, when i visit to your island.Will i be so lonely because i didn't see any girl for company me.Second question.Do you have a mortuary in case there is death.
Does your sister have social media channels we can also follow?
Wonderful! Keep them coming
Thank you! Will do!
Hi Christian, thank you for your inspiring videos. How did your dad acquire the land to be able to live and build their house there? And can any Kiwi do the same?
No he moved into an abandoned cabin in 1980. Things were different back then. Its hard to do that now.
Yea. Now we have an undersupply of wilderness and an oversupply of rules and people.
Hello very beautiful place you lived do you have to pay for food delivery
Yes we do and it is very expencive, so we try to get as much food from the wilderness as possible.
The greenstone that your father collects where does he get it from
Quick question: secret behind how are you soo handsome 😉😅😂
Defiantly from growing up in the wild nature i think...!
Myself and a friend are contemplating and assessing tramping from Hollyford to the Cascade Mid March. Do you have any tips and does the route from Big Bay to Gorge river follow the coast .Thanks
That's awesome you should defiantly do it!
From big bay to gorge you just follow the coastline the whole way except a small track behind crayfish rock and a small bluff just 1km south of gorge river if the tide is in.
See my video of walking from the cascade road end to gorge to see more about that part of the hike.
Also there's 2 small rivers between gorge and big bay, Hackett river and Ryan's Creek. Good campsites at each river
Can you put a translation of your clip?
I will try
@@WildKiwiAdventurerThank you
Thank you!
Does your sister have a youtube channel?
No sorry she doesnt
Do you guys pay land rates
How do your parents vote in NZ elections?
Haha usually they dont get the papers delivered in time. I think i have voted more times than they have managed to!
first
Hi. You are speak Arabica
Sorry? Do I speak Arabic?
No I don't
@@WildKiwiAdventurer oh ok .. do you have a program Tik Tok
@@WildKiwiAdventurer I want to follow you
@@samarprince1475 I don't but I think I need to make one!
Hey buddy, did the isolation affect your sexuality growing up? Your integration into a class for 7th form must of been very awakening for your libido.
Hahaha one of the best questions I've had yet. It was exciting more than anything
On your website you say your dad moved out there originally because he wanted to live sustainably. Do you guys see the irony in your family having a much larger footprint now then they would trying to live an ecological lifestyle in a city? Just the flying in and out alone... in a city they could ride a bike to the store.
It's not supposed to be criticism, I'm genuinely curious how your parents think about this today. What do they think about the environmentalist populism of their time and how it's returned even stronger these days? Could it be people are being lead astray? The overpopulation problem has gotten worse and worse, but not because New Zealanders have been popping out kids.
I'm sorry but we completely disagree. A small number of people might ride their bike to the supermarket to get their food but when they get there much of the food has traveled halfway across the world wrapped in plastic using fuel before it gets ridden on their bike home. Not to mention manufacturing the bike and the building supplies to build their home (ours are all reused) and the energy to heat their home and the LPG gas to cook the food. We cook our food collected from the environment around us using wood collected from the beach. We don't even use a chainsaw, lawnmower or refrigerator.
There are many different aspects to life keep in mind, a simple flight in a small plane doesn't use that much fuel, compared with most people driving everywhere each day in a city. It's very easy to focus on the obvious and forget about the rest of the things in life.