In England, we have a scheme for young adults called the Duke of Edinburgh award. There’s 3 levels to it. Bronze, Silver and Gold. The awards look good on your CV and for each level you have to do some volunteering, skills works and also a hike. The hike gets harder at each level and for Gold its a multiple day & evening affair with camping between each night.
At school, a small group of us signed up to do the D of E together and we smashed through Bronze and Silver. We worked together on our previous level hikes and we then had to wait a few years until we could fund our gold award. Once we all got to about 20, we were ready to plan our Gold hike and we decided to do it abroad. We planned it for summer in France. And it was going to last 4 days and 3 nights.
Our close knit group consisted of myself, my best friend Adam, his girlfriend Amy, then there was Imani, Rob and Millie. I’ll give you quick run downs on who everyone was and how we met.