David Vass Photo: supplied by Potton & Burton
Dave Vass is an adventurer, mountaineer and owner of a canyoning business whose life changed in an instant.
Climbing was an obsession and he was particularly captivated by Fiordland's natural beauty spending more than 30 years adventuring and exploring.
His time as one of the country's leading mountaineers climbing in Mt Aspiring National Park and Darran Mountains in Fiordland was cut short in 2015 when nearing the end of a climbing trip in a storm he slipped down a bank.
Dave speaks to Kathryn about how his adventuring, and the accident which resulted in a broken neck and incomplete tetraplegia.
