Pick Me Up!

THE BOY WHO LIVED

My legs ached and my face was wind beaten.

It had been a long, hard scramble up Snowdon, but we were nearly at the summit.

I looked around and saw my dad James, 55, struggling just as much as I was – but when my eyes fell on my eight-year-old son Jacob, I knew we had to keep going.

The pride

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