Panorama Image: Above The Cares Of The World

Tuesday, 6 July 2004, 3:18 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

Panorama image of the view from the Upper Mountain Cafetaria at Whakapapa on
the first day of skiing on the upper mountain this season, Monday July 5th 2004.

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Alastair Thompson

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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