Huw Kingston

Adventure

Huw, a multi award winning adventurer, writer, environmentalist and speaker, is proud to be a POW Ambassador. From his rookie falls and unplanned sleepout in a Main Range blizzard in 1986, to his Alpine Odyssey in the winter of 2022, Huw has loved the Australian alpine for nearly 40 years.

He admits to crying more tears of happiness when skiing than on any other outdoor activity. But those tears run a little less joyfully now, having witnessed the changes wrought upon our mountains, and those elsewhere, by a warming climate. Despite pioneering long ski traverses in the Himalaya and elsewhere, skiing past ice-rimed snowgums or hunkering down in high country huts still enthrals him.

In a very different adventure, Huw stood as an Independent in the 2019 Federal Election, on a platform of action on the climate emergency.

Continuing his love of long, human powered journeys, Huw spent the winter of 2025 traversing 4,500km across NZ by bike, foot and ski on Alpine Odyssey Aotearoa, including skiing at all 24 Kiwi skifields. Huw is also an Ambassador for Save the Children and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Watch the film of his Australian Alpine Odyssey here.