Sometimes it’s the family you can’t choose who are the ones to save you.
I don't know what to expect as I watch the rich Washington landscape of mountains and thick green forests. Granted, I'm watching it from the back of a squad car, so it’s not like I have a choice in the matter.
High school is hard enough—dealing with hormones, grades, the pressure of college, social media, prom, sex ed… the list can go on forever. I wish for that kind of normalcy. Instead, I'm being shipped way up to the middle of nowhere woods of Washington state—a serene community of cozy cabins, the smell of burning firewood… and enough troubled, drug-addicted, almost-criminal teens to make me wonder if this is a better option than juvie.
Little did I know that these societal misfits were exactly what I needed to become myself again.
Meet the Mountain Climbers, a tight-knit group of troubled teenagers living at a boarding school for at-risk youths up in a remote forest in Washington State. These kids have had their childhoods ripped away from them, but they're on the journey to take their lives back.