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Story SeriesA Mile in My Shoes

Adrian McCrae

After growing up on a farm, witnessing his brother being gored by a wild pig and working relentlessly in the WA mines, Adrian gives his all to take a group of paragliders to Kilimanjaro.

“I always knew I wanted to go back to Africa somehow and make a difference. As soon as he told me it was illegal to paraglide from Kilimanjaro, I knew literally before I’d hung up the phone exactly what I was going to do…”

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Copyright © 2015 Adrian McCrae

This story was collected by the Centre for Stories for the Empathy Museum’s A Mile in my Shoes installation as part of Perth Festival 2015. For reproduction and distribution of this story/image please contact the Centre for Stories.

 

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