Struggling through declining health and a bitter divorce, she decided to follow the promptings of her younger sister Carol who was keen to travel to Nepal for a trekking adventure.
Despite a wariness to visit the small, environmentally unstable country that had only a year earlier been devastated by a massive earthquake, Kathryn soon found herself on a small plane coming in to land at Tenzing-Hillary airport, the site of the world’s most dangerous landing strip.“Before I left, I wrote out my will,” she told Good News Network. “I didn’t expect to come back. I was either going to find an existence over there or quietly fall off the side of a mountain.”
At times, usually in the hardest moments during 10-hour treks, Kathryn would peripherally glance at the high cliff falls and question whether she ‘had it in her’ to complete not only her Nepali odyssey, but to continue her life’s journey. With the help of her sister and the guides, the Queenslander maintained enough resolve to complete each day’s endeavor. While resting in the isolated village of Lukla and preparing for their next trek, food poisoning struck both sisters.
The trek was postponed and Kathryn instead found herself getting to know the locals. One of these villagers was to become a friend who would help Kathryn discover the true purpose in her journey so far from home. In conversing with Lhakpa, the son of…
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