As I bum-shuffled my way down the scree at Avalanche Peak I wished I was back in the bush | Rose Lu

As my family were neither middle class nor white European I didn’t venture into the bush until I was an adult – I’ll never forget my first timeGuardian writers and readers describe their favourite place in New Zealand’s wilderness and why it’s special to themNothing beats the New Zealand bush. The writer Ashleigh Young once tweeted: “Sometimes NZ writers say ‘the forest’ instead of ‘the bush’ (and they definitely mean ‘the bush&rs