Ep. 798: Living Above the Arctic Circle - Revisited - Katherine Keith
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Wilderness adventure and dog mushing: Katherine Keith's life above the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, Alaska as a long-distance dog musher, mother to 35 dogs and a daughter, six-time Ironman finisher, five-time 1000-mile sled race competitor, commercial fisherman, energy engineer, and aspiring seven summits climber, fueled by grit, survival skills, and a passion for northern lights and wilderness pursuits.
Originally aired February 3, 2020
“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 fisherman, 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 | The sled is just bouncing up and down, as if on rocks, you know, it's super jumbly. |
| 0:08.1 | So your quads and calves and your ankles, all your bones and everything, you're just to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:36.1 | Today's a throwback episode. We're going back a couple |
| 0:39.3 | years when we talked to Catherine Keith about living above the Arctic Circle. You know, it's the time of |
| 0:46.0 | year where it might be cold where you are. It's cold where I am right now, but that's all relative |
| 0:51.7 | because it's still pretty warm, but it's nothing like the |
| 0:55.5 | Arctic Circle. And Catherine's lifestyle might be something, you know, as you're sitting behind |
| 1:00.2 | your desk, you're driving to work, like you dream about, you know, what is it like to be up |
| 1:03.8 | in some of these extreme places? Well, we're going to hear about it. She is a dog sled racer. |
| 1:09.0 | She is a triathlete. She's done a bunch of Ironman triathlons. |
| 1:14.0 | She's just an amazing athlete all around and just tough, tough person living, a really cool |
| 1:20.4 | lifestyle. She has a book called Epic Solitude, A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the |
| 1:27.3 | Far North. I definitely encourage you to check that out. Follow her online. All her a story of survival and a quest for meaning in the far north. |
| 1:28.0 | I definitely encourage you to check that out. |
| 1:30.0 | Follow her online. |
| 1:31.2 | All her links are in the show notes. |
| 1:33.3 | You know, we often daydream about this lifestyle or something like it, something different. |
| 1:37.6 | And we hear from lots of people in the show about living a different way of life. |
| 1:41.2 | So enjoy. |
| 1:42.7 | Wherever you are, enjoy. Maybe you think yourself, I never want to do |
| 1:46.3 | that live in the Arctic Circle or maybe that's exactly where you want to be. There's something you can |
| 1:51.6 | learn from Catherine and there's going to be some interesting things we talk about. First of all, |
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