Wilderness

SEIZING THE DAY

IF 86-YEAR-OLD Val Latimer has a small beef with the mountains she loves so much, it’s a bit of an abstract one.

“As I get older, they get higher,” she says. “Or they seem to. The challenge to get to the top gets harder.”

But that minor quibble doesn’t stop Latimer getting out with her tramping club as much as possible. She lives in

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