Pick Me Up!

LIFE’S A CLIMBA

Gripping onto the reigns, the huge llamas staggered up the rocky path.

Leading the pair, my son Jackson, now five, smiled away.

Glancing over my shoulder, my wife Jessica, now 43, and daughter Freya, eight, were doing the same thing.

It was August 2021 and we were already five days through our family holiday in Wyoming, USA.

However, this wasn’t a conventional family holiday.

Approaching Pingora Peak, one of Wyoming’s rocky mountains, we had all of our equipment in tow – with the help of the llamas of course!

Over the past five days, we had set up camp in the wilderness, sleeping through extremely low

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