Para alpine skier Mark represented New Zealand at the Albertville 1992 Paralympic Winter Games in Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super-G and Downhill. Mark stopped in Africa to meet up with friends after Albertville 1992 and stayed there for four years doing solo supply runs in a 4WD truck to luxury lodges into the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Mark then spent ten years as an overland safari driver, operating tours from Kenya to South Africa.
Married in 2001 with two daughters, Mark and his family arrived back in New Zealand in 2013. Since then, Mark has been teaching his kids to ski, worked as a driving truck instructor and now works as a workshop manager for a fleet of trucks/diggers.
Mark officially received his ‘numbered’ Paralympic pin as part of The Celebration Project in Tauranga in July 2019.
