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Shera
For two years, I lived in the Himalayan foothills at a boarding school tolerated by nature. I don’t know anywhere else that has a superior combination of leopard density and wireless download speed. The wilderness was not just on our doorstep but inside our house. Spiders and scorpions the size of s...
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Mountains and Temples
For most of monsoon, the walls of fog around us felt a little suffocating. In rare moments, we caught glimpses of India beyond our small community, but most of the time, we stayed on campus and adventured only to the nearest bazaar for errands....
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Call of the Wild
Before college, I had always loved playing outside and fraternizing with the natural world, but only in the past few years have I begun really probing that. Through Pittsburgh Connections and the Explorers Club, I've gone skydiving, rock climbing, caving, horseback riding, hiking, camping, skiing, w...
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