2022-03-15
23 分钟Hello, I'm Jo Fidgeon.
Welcome to Outlook, the podcast that connects us to people the world over through personal stories.
In normal circumstances, when someone you love dies, you get a chance to lay them to rest and have a graveside to visit to feel close to them.
Not so for Scott.
Kate Ballard.
Both her mother and her only brother remain on the mountainsides where they lost their lives 24 years apart.
Both were world class mountaineers.
Both died on expeditions to the Himalayas in locations too difficult to recover their bodies.
Kate's mother was Alison Hargreaves, famous in the mountaineering world for her record setting ascents.
She was caught in a storm on K2 in 1995 when Kate was 4 and her brother Tom, 6.
He went on to become a brilliant climber like his mum and tragically would share her fate, dying on nanga Parbat aged 29.
That was three years ago.
You might think that Kate would want to stay away from mountains after all she has lost there.
But no, she's been telling me why, despite everything, she still loves to be there.
That's the environment I've grown up in and it's where I feel most at peace and find the most enjoyment out of life.
Is it an uncomplicated feeling?
It's not a particularly complicated feeling.
It's just the place that I am most happy.
Doing what on mountains?
What's your happy place on a mountainside?