Bill McLeod

Mountaineering Legend Ross Cullen with Pip Lynch

Release February 2026

The remarkable story of , legendary New Zealand mountaineer.
did not start mountaineering until he was thirty, when he moved to New Zealand in 1978. With an instinct for adventure and a fierce determination he taught himself to climb, and over the next 25 years became one of this country’s finest alpinists.
Drawn from the letters he wrote to fellow climbers, : Mountaineering Legend traces Bill’s remarkable journey from self-taught novice to tackling the hardest ascents in Aotearoa.

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