The hiking demise of Lily Hooper – her situation? scenario? questions of why? how? on a solo hike? of her 2026 tragic death in our Blue Mountains Nattai National Park

[THIS AUTHOR’S NOTE:  This article, since recently being upgraded to a web-book, serves to present an online review, study and analysis of this factual and a very sad  outcome of a Blue Mountains outdoor recreation activity of August 2026.  This webpage updated 2026-10-03.] Reader guidance 🤷‍♂️ to this web-book:  This story is distressing because it’s about someone who has tragically […]

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Malaita Wall abseiling death of Outdoor Rec student Oliver Carrick (20) on October 7 at the hands of TAFE

At Nature Trail, we happened to be holidaying in New Zealand’s South Island at the time of this latest terrible Blue Mountains tragedy.  Photo of our Milford Sound cruise above (Click image to enlarge plasma screen view)   We chose and recommend Mitre Peak Cruises for safety first, quality in every way, being local and very personable. Visit:  ^https://www.mitrepeak.com/) So, we only […]

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Government tokenistic ‘recovery’ forum pacifies suffering tourism in the wake of another bushfire mishandling

Here we go again… Bushfires lockdown the entire Blue Mountains The widespread bushfire ‘mega-blaze‘ disaster of Christmas 2019 that was mishandled and allowed to rage and spread over two months, ended up destroying 80 percent of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area as well as many other natural regions of New South Wales. Dubbed by our sister conservation entity […]

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