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Thursday June 30 2022 The Star Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz NEWS 19 Buddies reunited on the battlefield They lived down the road from each other in Christchurch. Twenty years later, Tom Mutch finds himself reunited in a war zone with his childhood friend “I WONDER what Miss Wade would think if she could see this,” Nick Fisher says as 30 Ukrainian rockets fly over our heads to their targets in the Russian-occupied areas of Kharkiv. He was talking about our intermediate school teacher Jude Wade [now Garrett] who, when I reached out to her later, said: “I always said there were amazing kids in that class who would go far in the world, not sure I was anticipating a war zone.” Ukraine’s second-largest city and its surrounding area had been attacked since the start of Russia’s invasion on February 24 and me and my old classmate were there to report on it. I hadn’t seen Nick in nearly 20 years, yet here we were reunited for the first time on one of the world’s most terrifying battlefields. “As soon as I woke up on the morning the war started, I knew I just had to go there and tell the story,” Nick tells me. I had been in Kyiv on the same day and I felt a similar compulsion to stay. We had grown up just down the road from each other in Christchurch and had been friends in our class for two years at Cobham Intermediate, but had gone to different high schools and lost touch. Since we had parted ways, we had taken divergent paths to meet where we were, both aged 30, as journalists to cover the story of our lifetimes. I’m a freelance magazine journalist and he is one of the most well-known travel video bloggers in the world. I had left New Zealand to do my undergraduate degree at Oxford University, before going to work as a parliamentary researcher in the British Parliament. Having gotten bored of a desk job interviewing besuited politicians and generals in swanky hotels in central London, I decided to become a freelance conflict journalist. I had covered the Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2020 and then the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban the year after that. Hearing reports of the Russian military build up on the border of Ukraine at the start of the year, I decided to go and report on how Ukrainian society was dealing with this. I stayed and the rest is history. Nick had a different route to Kharkiv. After studying at Christchurch Boys’ High School, he studied horticulture before becoming a tour guide in the South Island. But after doing his OE, he soon found his true passion was film-making. CLASSMATES: Nick Fisher (left) and Tom Mutch grew up together in Christchurch before venturing abroad. Today they are both journalists, covering the war in Ukraine. “It started when I was in Nepal during the earthquake,” he tells me. “I was supposed to just be travelling and I was about to start teaching English.” The next day the school he was to teach in was flattened. He decided to document his escape from the Nepalese mountains in the chaos and his YouTube channel Indigo Traveler was born. His first videos are rough and ready, covering well-trodden destinations such as Vietnam, Cambodia and India. The camera is shaky and the editing amateurish. “Really good production values filming a video from across the road whilst trucks drive in front of you,” he jokes. He never had any training. “I was always really into mountain biking and there is a big video culture around that, but I didn’t do it professionally,” he says. But from the beginning he had a flair for engaging storytelling and a genuine curiosity that led him to interesting and unexpected encounters, which set him apart from the many other travel writers or bloggers. He said it took him about a year-anda-half to become self-sufficient from his video work. Nick started exploring the quirkier, more remote and dangerous areas of the world. His first outside-the-box travel was to North Korea which still rates among his best-ranked videos. ‘Inside North Korea: Surreal Experience’ is his most popular with 9.5 million views. Nick started to become a YouTube success. Collectively, his videos have been viewed more than 155 million times, but he says he started to become dissatisfied with pure travel blogging. “In around 2019 I began to pivot away from your regular ‘I looked like I was living the dream, being able to get paid to travel around the world, but I felt it was getting a bit empty and I wanted to do something more meaningful’ – Nick Fisher travel videos. “I looked like I was living the dream, being able to get paid to travel around the world. But I felt it was getting a bit empty and I wanted to do something more meaningful.” He started with a trip to Venezuela in 2019. The country, which used to be one of Latin America’s most prosperous, has been in the middle of a major economic collapse and is now one of the world’s most impoverished and dangerous nations. He decided to use his channel to raise money for a local social project, which ended up overwhelming his expectations. “The response blew me out of the water.” Nick says his family are still most proud of the charitable side of his work. He raised more than $400,000 for a series of soup kitchens in Petare, the biggest slum in Latin America. “Someone in UNICEF saw my videos in Venezuela and really liked them so they invited me to come with them to Afghanistan. So, it just continued from there.” The journeys became wilder and the countries more dangerous and war-torn. Alongside Afghanistan, his recent videos have been a smorgasbord of the world’s worst political and humanitarian crises: Libya, Yemen, Lebanon, and Somalia. The cameras became more expensive and his editing much crisper and more professional until the production values approached that of major news networks. The story he is most proud of is about a floating slum in the Nigerian capital of Lagos – think Slumdog Millionaire crossed with Venice. • Turn to page 20 • Interview with teacher Jude Wade p20 SCHOOL TIES: Nick Fisher (second row, second from left) and Tom Mutch (front row, first left) attended Cobham Intermediate in 2004 and were taught by Jude Wade.
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