Carolyn Highland's outdoor writing will drive readers and outdoor enthusiasts to get outside and experience all that the natural world has to offer. Out Here is a collection of essays that explores what the wilderness has to teach us about the human experience, using outdoor endeavours as extended metaphors for greater truths. Each carefully chosen piece embarks on a different physical and metaphorical journey: managing expectations and reality during a medical emergency in a 40-mile ski mountaineering race; staring down fear and consequences on exposed ski lines in Alaska; re-examining self-reliance and decision-making through heartbreak and snow science; and leaving room for unexpected magic as a female travelling through Patagonia. Highland's first book inspires a deeper connection to the wilderness, a deeper connection to ourselves, and will leave readers wanting more from this fresh new voice in mountain writing.
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- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 796.5
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781771604505 9781771604499
- LCCN
- GV191.6
- LCCN Item number
- H54 2020eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- EBLCP
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (217 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00241479 (OCoLC)1182799482 (CaOOCEL)458713
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- EBLCP
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Dedication 6
- Table of Contents 8
- Out Here 10
- Waking Up in the Wilderness 14
- Strength 20
- What Would You Do with Your Days? 34
- Know Before You Go 38
- Warmth 48
- Flowing through the Footholds 56
- Leaving Room for Magic 64
- When a Hard Left Is Right 72
- Legends of the Fall 82
- Reach 86
- The Things We Carry 90
- Or 96
- Triangulation 108
- In the Thick of It 114
- A Love Letter to Winter 122
- How Can I Support You? 134
- Becoming 138
- Tolerance for Uncertainty and Adversity 146
- Everything Counts 152
- For the Love of the Tour 160
- Going Alone 164
- Lean In 170
- Will You Do It Later, or Will You Do It Now? 176
- I Am Number One 182
- You’re Right 190
- The Tiny Miraculous 202
- Acknowledgements 210
- About the Author 214
