By Jessalyn Ayars of Carleton College Hello from Chile! Due to some inclement weather, team Ñirre experienced a change of plans, and spent the weekend of Nov. 9 in the backcountry near Villa O’Higgins. The original plan was for our…
By Kenzie Hines of University of Vermont The little boat came around a bend and Glacier Bernardo spilled into our view, with the bow pointed directly towards it. We reached the end of the portal into the fjord dimension, after…
By Adam Gellman, of University of Vermont After over a month of living in Patagonia, studying the ecology and completing several trips into remote areas, we thought that we had seen what Patagonia had to throw at us. We were…
by Jess Harkness, of University of Vermont Botswana Student Program – Fall 2019 Semester It’s almost midnight in Botswana, and we’ve been on the road for twelve hours straight. By “road”, I mean a well-traveled path in the sand through…
By Fiona Casey of Carleton College Do you know the scene in Lord of the Rings where Strider determines Pippin and Mary’s fate after the battle? No? That’s okay. I hadn’t seen Lord of the Rings before our campsite movie…