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In the 1970s, as the deer recovery era took off, the Hollows brothers - Gary, Mark and Kim were drawn from the north, one by one, to Fiordland. They were all helicopter pilots. Kim, the youngest, just 17 when he began flying. It was a wild time - the industry was growing quickly, huge sums of money were at stake, pilots and their shooters were competing with each other.
Author Peta Carey first met Kim when she was 18 and working at a Hollyford Track lodge, then again through her late husband Dave Comer, who knew all the brothers. Her book, The Hollows Boys, tells the brothers' unvarnished stories - and recounts an extraordinary time in New Zealand's history.
