Lou Sanson - From Track Cutter to DOC Boss
Lou Sanson, former Director-General of the Department of Conservation, has spent a lifetime in New Zealand’s backcountry. From his childhood on the West Coast being taken tramping before he could walk, through teenage missions into wild valleys, to a career cutting tracks, leading DOC, and supporting the Backcountry Trust, Lou has lived and breathed the outdoors. We talk about: His earliest memories of family adventures in the hills.The tramps and mentors that shaped his love of the backcoun...