Horse-trekking through the Victorian Highlands

Five Kiwis tackle Australia’s picturesque Snowy River ride.

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15th September, 2012

No one knows for sure where Banjo Paterson wrote his famous ballad, The Man from Snowy River, but the countryside around Lake Eildon, about three hours from Melbourne, has as good a claim as any. In the movie of the same name, this is where legendary stuntman Heath Harris jumped his horse down an impossibly steep ravine when “the colt from Old Regret had got away”. The story goes that after Harris had guided the horse in a long controlled slide, he triumphantly leapt from the saddle, still waving his Akubra, then fell and broke his leg. No such misfortune befell five New Zealand ...

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