The Middle of NowhereFor most New Zealanders, Manapouri is associated with the country's largest and most successful environmental protest, but there is another, less well known narrative of this time. The struggle to drill a tailrace tunnel under a rocky mountain at Manapouri, blast out a cavernous machine hall at West Arm, and carve a road over the treacherous Wilmot Pass is a powerful tale of those who worked and lived in extreme and punishing conditions, and faced