Stepping Up

When a sporty teen’s leg is crushed in a mountain-hiking accident, he has to face new challenges one tiny but huge step at a time.
What if you took a shortcut below some rocks and your entire life came sliding down?
High on the shingle slopes of Pangonui, 14-year-old Ben cuts below a pile of huge, half-buried boulders. All of a sudden there’s a terrible sound, and the rocks are tumbling towards him.
In the intense weeks that follow a surgery to remove Ben’s shattered lower leg, his mind returns to the mountain, his impatience, that split-second decision. Will anything ever be ‘normal’ again?
One goal keeps him going: he will finish the climb he started.