Photo: Supplied - Quentin Wilson Publishing
While some people look forward to putting their feet up in retirement, Andy Buchanan went entirely in the other direction.
The former University of Canterbury engineering lecturer decided the time was right to climb the peaks he could see from his family home in the Cashmere Hills when he was a child.
He used a panorama drawing of 133 peaks drawn by Ivan Pugh in 1967 and slowly, one by one, sometimes joined by friends or family - ticked them all off.
The result is his book Alpine Panorama: A View to a Climb, which includes historical, botanical and topographical detail of the surrounding area of the peaks - as well as some stunning photography of the South Island.
