New Zealand's AVALANCHE PEAK 🇳🇿 Awesome Arthur's Pass Day Hike

[@JesseStLouis]

New Zealand's BEST Hikes- kzbin.info/aero/PLgebiYsPxyGxiqg03LQGzdTXLH1-0qfJj&si=RVLC7jKP8rPFp8qN

[@JasonRuppVlog]

Fearless.

[@JasonRuppVlog]

You two are the best. 👌

[@JesseStLouis]

Thank you bro

[@ervinslens]

What a views, simply astonishing and breathtaking video man. Fantastic upload.

[@JesseStLouis]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@potatothorn]

another amazing hike!! sad about the birds but glad you try and get the word out/ Roxana loved the "beard" and that look over the edge made her freak out hahaha// awesome video thanks for taking us along

[@naturewalks]

What a beautiful view, I enjoyed it!

[@JesseStLouis]

It was awesome

[@solkalifabrasil]

Amazing views! Thanks for the comments about the Manuka honey (poor bees). I feel so sorry for the Kias 😢.

[@kozakura1]

Your boots have definitely seen some better days lol

[@JesseStLouis]

Lol, they were retired shortly after this trip

[@kozakura1]

@@JesseStLouis Haha at least they had a good life exploring and covering some amazing ground🤩. Also, where did you get your info about Manuka honey being bad? It's something I've never heard of and I live here. Quite a few of my friends have hives (mostly producing Clover and Rata honey and some Manuka) around the country. It's never been brought up as an issue 🤔

[@marafarnham595]

Wow Jesse that is sad, so pretty! Thank you to you and Sam for always sharing your adventures of beautiful New Zealand! Love to see the beauty! Stay safe and much love to you two 🤗❤🙏😘

[@JesseStLouis]

Our pleasure!

[@giovannigatti3991]

Nice hike, stunning view. It reminds me the Alps of northern Italy

[@JesseStLouis]

Thank you very much!

[@AliasJimWirth]

The local bird society needs to come around and educate people about the ultimate damage they are causing, though they may mean well in their feeding of the birds. I think this is the case everywhere and includes mammals, fish, in short, most all creatures. Your comments on the subject can only help. The more people who bring it up, in a non-antagonistic way, the greater the possibility of positive results. Thanks, Jesse, as always.

[@denisetewhata2513]

Tourists from overseas were the biggest detriments to our Ke, kiwis are pretty mindful of our Floor and fauna, not all but most of us

[@JesseStLouis]

It seems that really popular places all around the world have this same issue, people think the animals/birds are cute and feeding them allows them to get closer without realizing the damage they are doing to the animals natural survival. Our Kea call did work once on the mountain when one flew overhead to check us out 😁

[@francodiar6969]

Good on you, calling it how you see it. Manuka honey is a big con. It's only proven benefit is topical eg good for skin burns but like all honey is a just complex sugar.

[@tankej]

Just gotta say: love the avian close-ups! Always have. Does the credit go to Sam? And so sad to see the kias being fed - not to mention hearing about the bees being murdered. Good reporting.

[@JesseStLouis]

thanks John

[@JesseStLouis]

yep Sam is the close up bird master photographer

[@tankej]

@@JesseStLouis She must have a huge amount of footage by now - is a movie focused entirely on avian close-ups in the works?

[@JesseStLouis]

Not a bad idea!

[@kanepohio]

That's totally untrue what you said about Manuka Honey, if you look into a hive bees thrive on Manuka sites, their frames are laden with honey which is their food. There are also other plants flowering at the time that Manuka is flowering. Manuka has a very short flowering time, so hives are moved onto Manuka sites in time with the start of flowering and then removed off the sites when flowering stops. My father was a beekeeper and operated a honey company before retiring. A farmer of any animal has their best interests for health and welfare, the same goes for beekeepers and their bees. Did you know NZ exports its live bees to USA because of the decline in bee population over there. You wouldn't find a better honey in the world than Manuka Honey, it's liquid gold and NZ can't produce enough of it to satisfy worldwide demand.

[@JesseStLouis]

I learned this information from a person in the manuka industry. The reason the bees utilize the manuka is because there is nothing else for them to eat in those areas. These are facts from an insider. There are not native honeybees in New Zealand, they are all introduced. NZ is facing a die off of bees too. In 2019 1 in every 10 colonies died during the winter. I have worked in fruit agriculture in NZ and have seen firsthand how they are "worked to death" pollinating the fruit crops. You are wrong and seem to have a vested interest in preventing the spread of the TRUTH.

[@JesseStLouis]

"The introduced honey bee has not evolved with the Mānuka tree, so in contrast to native pollinators, it can find it hard to harvest nectar from this plant, for two reasons: Firstly, the native pollinators are much more efficient in competing with the honey bee for the nectar of the Mānuka flower. Secondly, the Mānuka nectar is quite viscous and sits deeply in the nectaries of the flower making it hard for the honey bee to extract. As it turns out, these issues don’t usually bother the honey bee! You see, honey bees are masters in optimizing their nectar collection so they often pass over Mānuka flowers (much to our disappointment!) and just move on to other sources of more easily harvested nectar." These are the words from a MANUKA HONEY seller! The bees become stressed being forced to extract nectar from a difficult plant(manuka) and die. They are admitting to having to starve the bees from anything else to force them onto the manuka. It backs up everything I said in the video.

[@kanepohio]

Big honey producers like Comvita where their sites only offer Manuka, may have the outcome of their bees starving because there's no other food around. Dad's sites had not only Manuka but also other plants flowering at the time, such as pasture and other plants. Hives before they are moved to a Manuka site have several frames of honey left in them to sustain the bees in the time it takes to start producing Manuka honey. The moving of hives onto a Manuka site and moving hives off once the short flowering period stops, minimises the chance of bees running out of food. In the summer a honey bee on average only lasts 6 weeks, because they eventually damage their wings from the work they are doing and then die. These bees are replenished by the queen laying eggs. Jesse I started following your KZbin channel some time ago and enjoyed your videos, I don't appreciate you saying I have a vested interest in preventing the spread of the TRUTH because it's complete rubbish. I have no vested interest in preventing the spread of the truth at all, I don't even work in the honey industry, I just like people to have the complete picture and have all the information so they can make up their minds for themselves. I get annoyed at someone from overseas talking shit about our Manuka honey and using social media to influence others. You're no better than the Covid anti vaxxers spreading their lies online in the hope of influencing others. Much of the knowledge about Manuka Honey was discovered as a result of research done by Peter Molan, of the Honey Research Department at Waikato University. He was the man responsible for coming up with the system for measuring the strength of Manuka Honey with the UMF (Unique Manuka Factor) rating.

[@jtee57]

Sometimes people should use their brains instead of their hearts. That is why no one should feed the wild animals, they lose their ability to hunt and scavenge for food😞 But Jessie, thanks for the info on the honey, my ignorance on the honey surprised me. It seems that no matter what we eat as humans, the impact on the environment will always occur. We must educate ourselves and each other to do the least damage. Stay safe you two, and keep the videos coming!

[@JesseStLouis]

i agree that education is key. we must constantly try to educate ourselves and others.

[@rollyrolly7729]

I can understand people from urban areas throwing food to the kea's as they have never been taught about feeding the animals in the wild. But for someone in Arthur's Pass who absolutely will know why you shouldn't feed them is apalling. It's as bad as the fisherman you told us about recently. Disgusting behaviour

[@JesseStLouis]

yeah it's hard to see something like this