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Older traveller

70-year-old Jenny Willis left her retirement village home to help build houses in Nepal with the Habitat for Humanity charity in 2010. After completing this project she planned to go on a four-day hike on the mountainous Annapura circuit.

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Peggy Koopman-Boyden, Older people – Demographics of older people, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/26687/older-traveller (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Peggy Koopman-Boyden, published 22 March 2011.