EVENTS DURING the last couple of years have changed Marie Mitchell's life. She lost both her parents, her husband's parents and then, following a skiing accident on Mt Ruapehu when she ‘ran out of talent’, she broke her back and came within a “hair's breadth of being paralysed”.
The accident happened in August 2023 in the middle of Marie's first Walk1200km challenge. She'd taken on the challenge because she felt it was time to focus
