All her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild sites that fill up her spirit with freedom and tranquility. Her travels consider her across America, but it is in the huge and rugged surroundings of Alaska that she finds her true house. Alaska is actually a place where people disappear-at least a couple thousand go lacking each year. However the same vast and rugged landscaping that contributed to more and more people being lost is precisely what has obtained her found.

She and her husband build a vacation cabin kilometers about Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Search for Meaning in the Much North from the closest road and create a lifestyle of like. An idyllic life, but with isolation and brutal living conditions can also come heartbreak. Chopping solid wood and hauling drinking water are not simply elements of a Zen proverb but a requirement for survival. Keith encounters tragic loss and must push on, with her infant daughter, by itself in the Alaskan backcountry.

Long-distance puppy sledding starts a door to a new existence. Racing over the condition of Alaska supplies the best of all worlds by merging raw wilderness with solitude and athleticism. The Iditarod Path Sled Dog Competition, the “Last Great Race on the planet,” remains a genuine test of personality and offers the opportunity to intimately explore the frontier that she has come to like.

With every thousand kilometers of winter trail traversed in total solitude, she confronts challenges that awaken internal demons, summoning all of the inner grief and trend that lies dormant. In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Crazy and John Krakauer’s Into the Wild, Epic Solitude is the powerful and coming in contact with tale of how one female discovered her way-both despite and because of-the problems of living and racing in the remote wilderness.