Hardship and triumph, such is life in the Grampians

By Martin Flanagan
Updated November 1 2014 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am
Tom Guthrie tells an epic tale in his book The Longest Drive. Photo: Damian White
Tom Guthrie tells an epic tale in his book The Longest Drive. Photo: Damian White

In February, 2006, a bushfire exploded in the Grampians and sent a mushroom of smoke into the air like an atom bomb. Within a day or two, the fire had dropped from the metropolitan news cycle. I was asked to go and have a look.

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