By Staff Member, John Watkins, 1967-1974 Fifty one years ago (!), I received a phone call from a man named Lance Lee. I was 16 years old and living in Chapel Hill, NC at the time. He asked, “How would... READ MORE

Asheville Citizen Times, July 26, 2017 ASHEVILLE – Andrew Williams Jr., 66, recounts each day of an outdoors adventure he took 50 years ago as if still living it. He describes scaling mountains in the winter, trekking a half-mile through... READ MORE

By Ryan Wilusz Staff Writer, Morganton News Herald He looks behind him and then straight ahead — not a soul in sight. He sits on the ground all alone, with a couple quarts of water and a tin can of... READ MORE

“Young people today need authentic adventure,” said Josh Miner in a 1964 article in the Princeton Alumni News. The article, which inspired many that year, highlighted Miner’s efforts to introduce a unique experiential education methodology called Outward Bound to the United... READ MORE