NOT SET IN STONE: The passion and consequence of a mountain life, by David Vass (Potton & Burton, $39.99)
It was predictable that after more than three decades as one of New Zealand’s best-known mountaineers, David Vass would eventually write this personal meditation on a climber’s experiences.
But that is only one part of the story. In 2015, Vass broke his neck in a fall in Fiordland. The accident didn’t occur on the
