Ep. 608: Finding Solitude While Living Above the Arctic Circle - Katherine Keith
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
From her book, Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North
“Katherine Keith is a wilderness athlete, experience junkie, spiritual questor, long-distance dog musher, and mother to a sixteen-year-old daughter, and 35 dogs, living above the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, Alaska. Professionally, and as a jack-of-all-trades survivalist, she is a small business owner, rural Alaska project director, energy engineer, commercial fishermen, and wellness advocate. Accomplishments such as completing six Ironman triathlons and five 1000-mile dog sled races form the Cornerstone of Katherine’s philosophy of generating grit through overcoming real-time obstacles. A never-ending dreamer, Katherine is currently pursuing climbing the seven tallest summits on every continent as a budding alpinist. Above all, she loved spending time star-gazing, chasing northern lights, and playing cribbage by wood stove with Amelia at camp."
Her Book: Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North
Her website: KatherineKeith.com
Instagram: @katherine.keith
Facebook: @kmkeith
Twitter: @KatKeith
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| 0:00.0 | If you want really good coffee to take on your next adventure, use CS Instant Coffee. |
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| 0:12.5 | Every day, you would wake up and just be ready to explore the backyard, which, you know, was hundreds of miles full of solitude. So it was amazing. |
| 0:22.8 | Also full of lots of tragedy and very heart-wrenching stuff. |
| 0:30.7 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the |
| 0:36.1 | planet. We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:40.8 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:02.0 | I had a hard time knowing what to kind of name this episode because Catherine and I talk about all kinds of stuff. |
| 1:08.0 | And one of the biggest things we talked about was building grit and why grit is important in today's world. |
| 1:12.3 | It's something that I know I could use more of and something that I may go a long time without actively building. And, you know, Catherine lives above the Arctic Circle in a town |
| 1:19.8 | called Cotsbyu, Alaska. And she went up there to find solitude. And she has written a book about her kind of thirst for solitude |
| 1:29.8 | throughout her whole life. And it's called epic solitude. The book is really just a memoir about her |
| 1:35.1 | life of adventure, about what it's like to live up there as well as just, you know, a lot of her |
| 1:39.6 | personal story intertwined between all that. She has hiked the PCT. She has raced the I didoride |
| 1:46.4 | a number of times, and she has competed in about half a dozen full Ironman competitions, |
| 1:52.7 | which is about two and a half miles swimming, 112 miles of biking, and then a marathon, |
| 1:57.1 | you do it all back to back to back. Pretty wild adventure. And she's done six of those |
| 2:02.5 | and probably six to eight half iron mans as well. So I really encourage you to check out the book. |
| 2:07.4 | If you want to know more about her story, she alludes to some things that but doesn't get |
| 2:12.1 | really into it. And you can find that on Amazon or at her website, which is katherine keith.com. |
| 2:18.5 | Both of those are in the show notes, the link to where to find the book. |
| 2:22.1 | But the book, like I said, Epic Solitude, a story of survival and a quest for meaning in the far north. |
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