Having come from Boston to spend the summer in Australia with his great-grandparents, thirteen-year-old Rust is consumed with doubt that he can live up to the responsibilities they lay on him.
aLEX'S DREAM IS TO COMPLETE HIS GRAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER'S JOURNEY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS, BUT HIS PARENTS SAY THAT THE JOURNEY IS TOO DANGEROUS. hOW CAN HE CONVINCE THEM.