A new crime novel foregrounds New Zealand's pioneering women mountaineers.
'Girl of the Mountains' is Wellington-based archivist and former journalist Trish McCormack's fourth book.
Crossing time periods and families, the book is a mystery set around the remote and treacherous Southern Alps - a place to which author Trish is no stranger, growing up in the foothills of Franz Josef.
She joins Emile Donovan.
'Girl of the Mountains' is archivist and former journalist Trish McCormack's fourth novel, set against the backdrop of the Southern Alps. Photo: Supplied