# @arcteryx on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUGoDvKD83U
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/54578075-arcteryx-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-29T17:48:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Arc'teryx (@arcteryx) — https://gondola.cc/arcteryx

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It began over dinner at the 2025 St Anton Arc’teryx Academy, when Victor Daviet, intrigued by my bus Rongo, leaned in and scribbled on a napkin: “I, Craig Murray, will take Victor Daviet on a trip around New Zealand in Rongo.” I signed immediately, the spark of a plan igniting into something bigger than either of us could have imagined. With Lauren Taafe, Zoi Sadowski-Synott, Jeremy Jones and his son Cass, and Finlay Woods capturing the chaos, we set off into the night, Rongo packed to the gills, heading south as Victor arrived late from Annecy, France.
 
Mornings unfolded like paintings, sunlight spilling over Aoraki / Mt Cook, the glacial blue of Lake Pukaki, paragliding above the water before dawn. Days blurred into one another: racing through Lindis Pass to Hāwea, surfing remote West Coast waves, camping on private airstrips under endless skies, and soaking up a sun that seemed determined to burn every color into memory. We climbed into glacier huts, where the snow glowed pink at sunset and reflected the mountains in vibrant reds and purples, and explored underground canyons, where streams carved out new worlds. Every sunrise, every sunset felt like a conversation with Papatūānuku, the earth mother, whose mountains, oceans, and forests hold a living, breathing pulse that shaped our adventure. Canterbury clubbies tested nerves with “Mad Max modified” rope tows that flung us up steep slopes, half a foot of fresh snow beneath our feet, and afternoons spent with local friends, alpine hot tubs, and golden light fading over the back ridge.
 
Every moment was heightened, the wind tossing a tundra cooler fifty yards, the laughter around campfires, the quiet hum of stars emerging over the Southern Alps, and by the end, Victor, watching the road and the mountains, said, “It all makes sense now that I have seen where you come from.” The journey had left its mark not in photos, but in the rhythm of moving through it: the shared energy, and fleeting moments that live long after Rongo rolls on. — weazydavis

You can catch Craig’s film coming later this year.

📸: weazydavis / victordaviet / finlaywoods / tfishstickz 

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