Life of a Mountain Hut

Author(s): Hueneke, Klaus

Fiction

Where does the social life of Australia’s high country occur? Ski-tourers and alpine walkers, striving for shelter and ahead of dusk or bad weather, can be profoundly un-chatty; and tents are mostly poor places for conversation. It is inside the high country’s huts that society flourishes. (I think Klaus must have got most of his conversations off a fly on a hut’s rafters.)

As a photographer, he knows that the narrowest aperture can give the greatest depth of field; and he has brilliantly chosen the narrow peephole of a single hut - ironically, one that burnt down in 2020 before he had completed its story - and must surely be re-built now to sample, across the decades, the vast saga of mountain folk and mountain stories.
A triumph!
Mark O’Connor, poet, author of Tilting at Snowgums


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