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From Snow to Ash
Solitude, soul-searching and survival on Australia's toughest hiking trail
Author: Anthony Sharwood
Narrator: Anthony Sharwood
Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Published: 08/25/2026
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs, Sports & Recreation, Hiking
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Bonus Material
Synopsis
At the start of the hellish, fiery Australian summer of 2019/20, Walkley Award-winning journalist and suburban dad Anthony Sharwood set off on a journey. Abandoning his post on a busy news website to clear his mind, he solo-trekked the Australian Alps Walking Track, Australia's most gruelling and breathtakingly beautiful mainland hiking trail, which traverses the entirety of the legendary High Country from Gippsland in Victoria to the outskirts of Canberra.
The journey started in a blizzard and ended in a blaze. Along the way, this lifelong lover of the mountains came to realise that nothing would ever be the same - either for him or for the imperilled Australian Alps, a landscape as fragile and sensitive to the changing climate as the Great Barrier Reef.
The journey started in a blizzard and ended in a blaze. Along the way, this lifelong lover of the mountains came to realise that nothing would ever be the same - either for him or for the imperilled Australian Alps, a landscape as fragile and sensitive to the changing climate as the Great Barrier Reef.