Homage For My Estonian Father & Grandmother
(Enn & Helmi Truupold—Nee Kukk)
My father was an Estonian refugee from the Second World War – and a mountain climber. When I was growing up, I never understood the more profound implications of who he was and what he did, but in the last years of his life, when he finally opened up about his family's history, I finally understood why he was the way he was.
I did a few climbs with him at his indoor climbing gym in Sydney, and one day, I found myself at the top of the…
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