The distant mountain has been calling our feet for the past two days. At last, Alex Petsch (the 30-year old son of a friend of mine) and I are hitting the gravel track from our shepherd’s hut in the direction of the impressive flat-topped range in the distance.
Since I first met him when he was seven years old, hiking is something we’ve always done together. But he’s walked a long way since that first hike up the Soetmuisberg behind Napier and become a “World Citizen”, trekking through the Annapurna Mountains in Nepal, summiting Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and, just recently, Rinjani in Southeast Asia. ..
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