In 1993, long term NSTC  member Dora Couwenberg was tramping with the club in the Waitakeres when she slipped and fell over a cliff.

By shear luck,  Carl Dickinson of the South Auckland tramping club Toi-Toi Trekkers saw Dora go over the edge and went after her.  Carl found Dora seriously injured and face down in a creek.  Carl pulled Dora from the water and ended up flying with her by helicopter to hospital.  Dora made a full recovery and still tramps with the club most Sundays.

Dora and Carl met each other by chance for the first time since the accident when their paths crossed on a track in the Waitakeres at the end of January.