I wrote letters to my twins from pregnancy to five years old. They show how hard it is to ‘have it all.’

Majka Burhardt is one of the world’s top professional ice climbers and the Founder and Executive Director of Legado, a movement co-creating climate justice with Indigenous people around the world. 

In her epistolary memoir, “More,” Burhardt shares a series of real-time letters to her twins as she raised them from birth to age 5 years old. At the time the excerpt below was written, Burhardt was on tour for showings of her documentary film, Namuli, with two four-month-olds, raising money for Legado, and trying to solve a dwindling milk supply in a sticky public bathroom.