Mary Hobbs: an extraordinary life at Tekapo

Mary Hobbs is a writer, photographer, publisher, former nurse and current business owner who lives with her husband Charlie at Aoraki Mt Cook. The pair own a guiding company, and The Old Mountaineer's Cafe and divide their time between those businesses and alpine trekking, skiing, organic farming, photography, and writing. Mary Hobbs has a new coffee-table book "The High Country Stations of Lake Tekapo" featuring the stories and stunning photos of people living in stations in the area.