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A Return To The Alps...
...or: when The Peak, though preferably pointy, is not itself The Point.
 • Kate Armstrong
Highland lessons…
…on blisters, ambiguity, and self care…
 • Kate Armstrong
A Life's Work
…or the knowledge I have been avoiding for the past ten years…
 • Kate Armstrong
On off-piste skiing, chronic illness, and ‘the nature cure’
– but not in the way you might expect
 • Kate Armstrong
When joy shines through the darkness – three times, in three ways.
Note: if you’re only here for the mountains, then skip to the end for a promise.
 • Kate Armstrong
On awareness – in writing, in climbing, in life.
Have a schedule, say the Substack gurus.
 • Kate Armstrong
On being brave
In which I walk backwards off cliffs – and get interested in courage against the odds.
 • Kate Armstrong
The Art of Navigation - in the mountains and in life
So here we are – having passed Beyond The Mountain, beyond the simplified clichés, beyond mere outlines such as a child would draw.
 • Kate Armstrong
Why ‘Beyond The Mountain’?
Of literal and metaphorical; of Tube adverts, and achievement, and rock.
 • Kate Armstrong
Beyond The Mountain
Beyond The Mountain
Big life experiences (grief, joy, illness, strength) through the metaphor of mountains. Clichés, platitudes and generalities not allowed. Any wisdom that may be found here has been hard-earned.
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