We let our two boys climb trees, and sled down steep hills, and swim in frigid ocean waters in winter. Lucian and I were both craving a bit of risk.Īs parents, my wife and I have always tried to be adventurous in ways large and small. We knew we had to be careful, but in an odd way, the danger was part of the allure. It’s scary and quite dangerous: The mountain has claimed at least 17 lives. The ridge is narrow, less than an arm-length wide in places, with massive drops on both sides. It connects the mountain’s two most dramatic peaks. At its summit, Katahdin has an extremely dramatic, mile-long ridge known as the Knife Edge, that looks like the back of a stegosaurus. We had just completed a grueling, four-day hike in Maine that culminated with us climbing Mount Katahdin. Not long ago, my 12-year-old son, Lucian, and I were standing on the knife’s edge.
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