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I couldn’t, I just couldn’t climb this big hill. When I started climbing I saw a spider fighting with a cockroach that made me very scared. But after a while I could hear a bird clearly and when I looked down I could see my Mum’s red top.

But when I looked back up I freaked, “aaaahhh!”. I remembered what my teacher had said, “if you feel scared, you can always count to ten and take three deep breaths, close your eyes and then carry on with what you are doing.

When I opened my eyes I felt proud to be up at the top of the hill. I looked down and thought, gosh, if Mum and Dad were here they would have seen the view from up here!

I climbed back down, then I ran over to Dad. “Dad! Dad!” I said, “thank you for letting me climb a rock face for the first time. Thank you!”

- By Lata

“I dare you!” Ben and I said.

“No! Why do I have to lose,” I asked, “so what do you want me to do, Ben?”

Ben answered, “maybe you could climb one quarter of Mt Everest.”

“No way!” I growled.

“If you don’t, I’m never going to play with you. You can fail if you want,” teased Ben.

I stomped outside.

“Here I go,” I groaned to myself.

I grabbed the first rock. It felt freezing. I grabbed the second one. It was actually even colder. The higher I climbed the colder the rocks were. I climbed and climbed until a snowball fell on me. I felt like I was in -100ºC. I almost lost my balance. I couldn’t believe it. I saw another rock that was about to fall on me. I thought, a snowball already made me lose my balance. Rock is harder than snow, maybe that could kill me. I freaked out. I let go. I fell! I thought I was going to die.

Luckily I climbed just a short way where the ground was covered in snow. My friend Ben was nearby and was watching all of it. He shouted “FAILED!!”. I was angry that I had not succeeded, but as long as Ben still played with me that was okay. I am going to play I dare you again.

- By Campbell

I was one quarter of the way up the cliff. Once I look down I got freaked out. I yelled as loud as I could.

Then I whispered to myself, I can do it. And could do it – I knew because I was already midway up. “That’s it! I can’t take any more,” I said out loud. At that moment I saw my Mum at the bottom and heard her yelling to me, “you can do it!” Also at that moment rocks we falling from right where my feet were. I was about to fall.

I put one foot up and then the other. I did it again and again and I really, actually did it!

- By Aarushi

I carefully stretched out to grab a rock and pull myself up. I was with my Mum and my sister at the face of a cliff. When I touched it it was bumpy, lumpy, and also a little bit grassy. When I started to climb the cliff I wasn’t scared because I was wearing my harness. If I fell, my harness would have caught me. I put on my harness and started to climb.

I was halfway up the cliff. But I could not see my Mum or my sister. When I looked down, the ground was so small and they looked like baby ants. I carried on with my climbing. When I was almost at the top of the cliff I grabbed onto a loose rock but I didn’t notice it was loose. I stopped and lifted my left hand and let it relax while I was still hanging onto the face of the cliff. I was relaxing for a while. I soon started climbing again, but then I wriggled the rock and I finally found out about the wriggly, jiggly rock. I tried reaching out to grab a solid rock but I fell. I started to scream so loudly that my Mum and my sister were shouting to see if I was okay. I started laughing and said, “yes”.

I finally got to the top. I was so exhausted so I lay down and puffed and huffed. I was sweating too. Later I got down safely by looking out for loose rocks and being carefull about where I put my hands and feet.

- By Losa