….Eleven-year-old Kingsley Eroro followed in his fathers footsteps and walked the Kokoda Trail during the April School Holidays

April 16, 2004 ? just eleven days before the ANZAC Day celebrations – eight trekkers from Australia headed out for Kokoda Trail on a nine-day trek.

It seemed an important event since the trek was done in commemoration of the ANZAC Day which eventuated on Sunday, April 25. And no one knew better than, Emily Barr, Colin Mitchell, Garth Tuckey, Andrew Diduszko, James Roach, Murray Jones, Stacey Chesworth, and Chris Baker what it is like to remember the ANZAC heroes ?this? way.

But that is just one side of the story. What seemed even more remarkable about this journey was the presence of a young lad who accompanied the team from Kokoda all the way to Ower?s Corner.

Eleven year old Kingsley Eroro who hails from Kokoda Station, Oro province, is probably the youngest PNG trekker ever to have walked the whole Kokoda Trail. It was only his first, but also a dream come true after so many years of idolizing his father as an expert trekker, guide and porter.

The team on the ANZAC trek posed for a group shot at Isurava

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