In 2011, after a season of difficult family circumstances, a respite was sorely needed. Kev’s guidebook to the Via Alpina was just the thing, and soon had me on a sometimes-damp, sometimes-rainbow-filled, always lovely two week jaunt. He was remarkably kind and generous in response to email questions from a novice trekker, too. He opened the Alps for me, just as he doubtless did for thousands of others on dozens of trails. What a life and what a gift, to open the way into the mountains for so many.