The good-looking guy on the left is Matt and the other guy on the right is Marc. We met last year in New Zealand during a party (although Marc doesn't remember this) and a few days later we met again when a mutual friend of ours organised a climbing group for an attempt to summit Mount Aspiring, the "Matterhorn of the South". It was during this trip that we became great friends, and over the following year, while we were both still in New Zealand, we carried on climbing, drinking and adventuring together. 

 

During Matt's last few weeks in New Zealand, we were both living together on Stewart Island and decided that we were just too good together to stop our adventures. While sitting by a fire, with a beer in one hand and freshly caught fish in the other, we came up with the idea for this trip.