When Geordie Stewart missed Mount Everest’s summit by 150m, the Finnish concept of ‘sisu’ helped the 21-year-old conquer his feelings of failure, and spurred him to become the youngest Briton to climb the Seven Summits – the highest mountain on every continent. Here he finds sisu in Lochaber, as he launches his crowdfunded book In Search of Sisu: A Path to Contentment via the Highest Point on Every Continent.
We all know the feeling. That moment when you are at the midway point of a lengthy hike in the Highlands and suddenly the weather turns 180 degrees.
It is blowing a hoolie, the clag descends, visibility reduces to a couple of metres and the whole experience becomes about persevering.