Give me a mountain to climb, a river to run, and a language to learn -- I will tell you a story.

I have climbed to the base of Fritz Roy in Patagonia, backpacked for 10 days in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and gone scuba diving in Florida.

I write about the adventures that come from the unexpected. Be it a near death experience or a wrong turn on the way home.

Currently, I am a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder studying environmental journalism and writing about one of my ... more