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WONDER YEARS

Our daughter has taken after her name. Wild, untamed, she can bring an adult to their knees: Lhotse.

At two-and-a-half years old, she can pretty much already out-run, out-ride and out-climb me. Her love for life, and her fascination with the smallest details, draw me in as though the world she’s experiencing is completely different to my own.

Put a child in a park and you can see that the nature-loving spark is naturally there. But how do we, their parents, ensure this spark catches and becomes an inferno of passion that drives their love of nature and fuels their desire

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