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Climbing Mount Kenya with my 13-year-old daughter

It was a wonderful rite of passage for her entire class

19 July 2014

9:00 AM

19 July 2014

9:00 AM

 Kenya Highlands

I’ve just descended Mount Kenya with Eve, my 13-year-old daughter, and her class of school leavers from Pembroke House. Afterwards our guide Steve, an ex-Grenadier guardsman, emailed me to say Pembroke kids were his favourites on these mountain expeditions. ‘How could one not enjoy the company of such a crowd of gregarious misfits,’ he wrote.

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