Katherine Keith
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Katherine Keith

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Katherine Keith grew up in northern Minnesota and drove to Alaska to pursue her childhood dream of being an explorer in the Far North. She learned to run dogs and lived a subsistence lifestyle off-grid above the Arctic Circle for many years.

Katherine went to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. There she got her pilot’s license, became an EMT, and graduated with an interdisciplinary degree in Renewable Energy Engineering.
Professionally, Katherine owns a few small businesses including Remote Solutions, Katherine Keith, LLC and Alaskans Changing Together, which allows her to help meet the needs of rural Alaska. She is an expert facilitator, project manager, technical writer, strategic planner, grant writer, and operations director. As an advocate for wellness, she commits to supporting Alaskans to build capacity through responsible, sustainable development in communities large and small.

Katherine is a certified Bulletproof and Integrative Nutrition health coach. Through high performance coaching she provides clients with help in establishing, reaching, and exceeding their goals.

A lifelong wilderness athlete, she seeks endurance dogsled races, back country hikes, alpine mountains, and Ironman triathlons. Katherine began racing dogs competitively in 2012, ran the Iditarod four times, the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest twice, and the Kobuk 440 and K300 multiple times. She has finished six full Ironmans until turning her sights towards alpine pursuits. She is working towards climbing the Seven Summits, which are the tallest mountains on every continent.

As a jack-of-all trades survivalist, Katherine also is a private pilot, fishes commercially for salmon above the Arctic Circle, while also operating the dog kennel. She recently authored her first book, a memoir titled Epic Solitude released by Blackstone Publishing.

As an author, Katherine Keith shares her experiences living remotely in the rugged Alaskan wilderness. An adventurous spirit for all of her life, Katherine always yearned for wild places far away from civilization, where she could fill her soul with peace and freedom. In Epic Solitude, she writes about what it was like to build a log cabin with her husband miles away from anyone else where they could create their life while facing the brutal conditions and isolation of living in the backcountry. Together, with their infant daughter, she and her husband chopped wood, hauled water, and kept the fire burning out of necessity for survival.

Through her book, Epic Solitude, Katherine brings the reader into her life in Alaska, where she also learned—and became skilled at—dogsled racing. She dove in headfirst towards her dream of becoming a dog musher in the great Alaskan Frontier, and it was on the trail with her dogs, surrounded by barrenness, that Katherine discovered the solace she’d been longing for. Katherine also came to realize that, by sharing her story and leaning on her experiences, she could help other people and help herself. Katherine records her journey of self-discovery and inquiry online through her vlog journal, which she calls Life is in the Detours.
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