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Anna Parsons broke nearly all her bones in the fall
A wrap of the biggest stories and best writing about the outdoors from New Zealand and around the world. University of Otago student Anna Parsons and her family must be feeling very mixed emotions right now. After the horror of discovering the 21-year-old had been in a terrible climbing accident in the US – one […]
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