I Walked It Off

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Finding my way through cancer, and the New Zealand backcountry

A cancer diagnosis

A love of hiking

One woman’s journey of resilience and rediscovery

When Verity was diagnosed with vulvar cancer in 2025, her world stopped. But in the middle of fear, uncertainty, and major surgery, she found one constant: the mountains.

From backcountry huts to alpine ridgelines, I Walked It Off, is a raw, honest and often humorous memoir about living with lichen sclerosus, facing a cancer diagnosis, and learning to trust her body – and herself – again.

This is a story about more than survival. It is about showing up, putting one foot in front of the other, and discovering that healing is not a straight line; it is a long walk in the wild.

Funny, fierce and deeply human, this is one woman’s journey of courage, connection and walking it off.

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