This is a story about how a normal family chose climbing, meaning and persistence over comfort and convention.
Climbing has been Kirsty's and Hardin's way of life for over 20 years. After having their two kids Arlo (8) and Eia (6), they slowly began to realize that they wanted to build their family life and their children's childhood around what climbing has always given them — freedom, adventure and time together outdoors in the wild each day.
That decision meant letting go of comfort and certainty, stable jobs and predictable routines. The path society expects families to follow but wasn’t for them.
They didn’t “sell everything” – they didn’t own any house to sell. Instead, they used what they had, left what they knew and dove headfirst into the unknown with little more than some savings and stubbornness for a life juggling climbing, raising their kids off grid, on rocks and on the road, home educating, working as they go, and shaping their family life around what feels meaningful to them even when it's hard, painful and inconvenient.
Because the life you want doesn’t happen by luck or accident.
It takes persistence.
Film by: Lars Goos
www.larsgoos.com
PERSISTENCE | Life on the road as a climbing family of four
This is a story about how a normal family chose climbing, meaning and persistence over comfort and convention.
Climbing has been Kirsty's and Hardin's way of life for over 20 years. After having their two kids Arlo (8) and Eia (6), they slowly began to realize that they wanted to build their family life and their children's childhood around what climbing has always given them — freedom, adventure and time together outdoors in the wild each day.
That decision meant letting go of comfort and certainty, stable jobs and predictable routines. The path society expects families to follow but wasn’t for them.