"How a family hiking trip left me thinking about mortality": read my Long Reads feature...

"Rising from a stranger’s bed I pull aside the curtain and see the low isle of Anglesey floating in the Menai Strait: a fine day to climb Snowdon, first episode in what we hope will become the Three Peak Trilogy over coming weeks as part of my daughter’s Duke of Edinburgh challenge..."

Read the rest of my long, meandering feature in The Independent's Long Reads section.