Alumni

NOLS Alumni trip explores new, less visited, route in Iceland.

Celebrating the life of Peter Simer, Executive Director of NOLS from 1975 to 1983, we reflect on a leader, a mountaineer, and a friend.

NOLS' first foray into backcountry skiing in Japan with an Alumni Trip.

NOLS Alumni trips announces the closing of our Bahamas program.

A snap, hasty decision in college led me to attend NOLS. Usually a calculated person, l changed my life course in about 60 seconds.

Over 55 years, we've learned the value of NOLS isn't in accomplishments so much as the way a NOLS education inspires and empowers our graduates to act, as we see in these alumni stories.

In 1990, two people started a business that was remarkable for 2 reasons—most important because the business was dedicated to teaching wilderness medicine. Read on and celebrate NOLS' anniversary with 30 years of wilderness medicine history.

What do Marc Randolph, Jimmy Chin, José González, Knight Campbell, and Kit DesLauriers have in common? Listen to their stories to learn how NOLS influenced their trails to success.

See the ways NOLS grads are leading in the field of sustainability

We're sharing our first ever digital-only publication of The Leader alumni magazine for Spring 2020

I had no idea I was going to work toward this masterpiece of a race, where I’d blend skills I'd spent years working on for 1,000 miles in the winter with a sled. But now I look back and I see it all come together, and NOLS was the conduit, the peephole.

The Engineer, His Camera and an Alaskan Love Affair: Part Two

Once upon a time, two young bankers met by chance, bonding over their NOLS expeditions in Wyoming's mountains. The rest is history—a true NOLS love story.

While recovering from a devastating injury, Jim Harris found himself returning to key life lessons he learned as a teen on a NOLS backpacking course.

NOLS instructor and American Avalanche Association executive director Jaime Musnicki talks about her career in the outdoor industry.

NOLS alumni give advice for taking friends and family on a NOLS alumni trip.

The post author learned that stepping into life back home is as important a skill as living in the wilderness.

Adventuring in nature has the ability to open our hearts and interpretive learning opens our minds.

We found ourselves in a boat pulling away from the only dry land we could see. It looked like a normal city neighborhood had been built in the middle of a lake—all due to Hurricane Harvey

NOLS alumni of all ages come together to repair a bridge in the Adirondacks.

Len Zanni, co-owner of Big Agnes, Inc. and NOLS grad, talked with us about what he’s learned from NOLS and from his years of working in the outdoor industry.

Best Time to Take a Gap Year: Discover how any year can be transformed into an impactful and transformative gap year.

Stand out from the crowd by talking about NOLS on your resume

An incident commander reviews a complex cave rescue