Ain’t no mountain high enough LYDIA’S lofty challenge
“The first time I was exposed to the great outdoors was when my mother sent me off to do a mountain craft course in Arthur’s Pass. Thinking about it now, there must have been some kind of spiritual association about being in nature, though at 14, I didn’t fully understand it. I just knew I wanted to go back.
When I left school at the end of sixth form, I knew I wanted to go to university, but angsted over what to study.
