by Cal Waichler, of Colby College It takes us the better part of a day to wind north from our base camp in Cochrane, then east through the Chacabuco Valley, to reach the stark landscape on the other side of…
by Christof Zweifel, of Carleton College We spent the past week camping in Valle Chacabuco; surveying the guanaco population, critiquing neoliberalism, and learning about the steppe ecosystem. After eons as a home to the Aonikenk, then a few decades of…
by Katherine Rigney, of Carleton College How do you begin to describe two weeks like the two weeks we’ve just had? I suppose as Julie Andrews once said, the beginning is the very best place to start. So we’ll try…
by Sophia Gillies, of University of Vermont Team Coigüe’s, Week 1 After a long day of travel, we all filed off of the plane eyeing each other, the other fellow gringos we would be sharing the semester of adventures with….
by Klara Gabriela Heuchert, of Carleton College Mongolia Study Abroad – Fall 2019 semester – September 6-14 Tengish-Shishged: Two furgons full of eight students, three Round River instructors, our sweet cook, Amkaa, and two very capable Mongolian furgon drivers travelled…