On the Verge

What does one do when the dream of a lifetime is realised? What is beyond Reinga (the place of departing spirits)?Questions, so long ignored and put on the back burner of my mind, now had to be faced. We walked, very slowly, back up the track to the car. I sat down and untied the Hoka laces for the last time. It seemed another lifetime when I had tied them at Bluff, but it was only a little over 3...