Bookworm lived life to the full

From: The Nelson Mail | Date: September 10, 2002 | Copyright information

Al Wood was someone who could do it all. He was a bookworm who skied off the top of New Zealand's highest mountain; a self-taught house and boat builder who also wrote fiction and screenplays; an intelligent, zany character with a cynical world view who always had time and compassion for his friends and family.

The Nelson College old boy died last month at Dunedin Hospital, aged 32, having never regained consciousness after being hit by an ice fall while climbing in the Remarkables m...

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