S's school (and, really, very many of the schools here in Australia) has a terrific outdoor/leadership education component. Each year from Year Five to Ten the students take increasingly rigorous (and increasingly longer-away-from-home) camping expeditions with their class, culminating in Year 10 with a 10-day trek into the bush for some camping, caving, hiking, river crossing, kayaking, rappelling, and a fair dose of team building/leadership exercises. Here's a little glimpse of Sam's expedition this year from back in May, our mid-autumn. If you're watching carefully you can spy him a few times throughout and at one very obvious spot towards the end.