Failure and success

July 2014

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July 2014

It took several attempts, but the author eventually climbed Aoraki/Mt Cook. Photo: James Riden
  Mick Abbott reflects on how his successes – and failures – in the mountains have shaped his understanding of his place in the world It’s a thrill, on my regular drive from Banks Peninsula into town, to look across Lake Ellesmere, the foothills of the Southern Alps covered in the first decent belt of […]

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