Last week, as the sun set over the craggy hills of Spitzkoppe, Namibia, Edith Lemay and her husband, Sébastien Pelletier, stared out over the vast land-scape. The Canadian couple and their four children had spent the day scaling boulders, then cooled off from the desert heat in a nearby rock pool.
“There was a sweetness in the air and as the sun disappeared, there were more stars than we’ve ever seen in our lives,” said Lemay. “It was magic.”
Their children, Mia, Leo, Colin and Laurent, also gazed at the deep, inky darkness of the sky, awestruck.
Three of those children will lose their eyesight in the coming years, making the experience all the more important for Lemay and Pelletier, who plan to travel for the next year to give…