"Charged" by harsh encounters
Robert "Bud" Roper has written books on mountaineering and
articles on outdoor topics for Men's Journal, Outside
Magazine, and National Geographic Adventure. So
writing about a group of Hopkins students who backpacked
through the Adirondacks in January
("Cold Comfort") should have been pretty tame stuff,
right? Nope. The student-led trip "very quickly came to
resemble one of those Himalayan expeditions," says Roper, a
visiting associate professor in The
Writing Seminars and himself a climber. "I was amazed
at how many of the students said afterward, 'I'm really
charged to go out and do more of this stuff.'"
Return to April 2003 Table
of Contents