Muse Canberra: Kate Leggein conversation with Gordon Peake

Behind the World Heritage listing of Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain — a place now visited by 250,000 people a year — is a remarkable love story.

He was an Austrian immigrant; she came from Tasmania. He grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; she climbed mountains when few women dared. Their honeymoon glimpse of Cradle Mountain lit an urge that filled their waking hours.

Others might have kept this splendour to themselves, but Gustav Weindorfer and Kate Cowle sensed the significance of a place they sought to share with the world. When they stood on the peak in the heat of January 1910, they imagined a national park for all. 

Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story traces the achievements of these unconventional adventurers and their fight to preserve the wilderness where they pioneered eco-tourism.  

Meet the author of this wondrous story, Kate Legge in conversation with Gordon Peake.

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