Small Steps Towards a Distant Summit: Healing in the Mountains
Watching someone who has never climbed before do it with bright eyes and gritted teeth is one of the greatest joys. It is a physical manifestation of pushing our limits in real-time, and watching young kids and adults, all of whom shared a similar hurdle that they were simultaneously navigating to the rockface, was emotionally fettered. These families had all lived through a year and a half of war as Russia waged a war of terror and attrition against their home country of Ukraine, and yet here they were, choosing to continue living and pushing the edge of what it meant to do so in the face of unimaginable pain and suffering.