Nations Wilderness Risk Managers Meet Near Jackson, Wyoming Jackson, Wyo. October 1-3, 2008 The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), Outward Bound, and SCA are hosting the 15th Annual Wilderness Risk Management Conference.

Just a few days ago, 11 men and women emerged from 70 days in the Western wilderness. They were not lost. In fact, they had signed up for an arduous course with the National Outdoor Leadership School.

Many university students are told to set their sights high, but in Darren Pezzacks case, he took the phrase literally. The local 19-year-old Halton Hills resident, a Georgetown District High School graduate entering his second year at the University of Western Ontario, recently summited Mount McKinley in...

WILTON - Christie Wanamaker was sitting in a Starbucks earlier this week, sipping an iced coffee. Her skin was deeply tanned, a fringe benefit of her job as a sailing instructor at the Stamford Yacht Club.

By Ray Sikorski The founding of the National Outdoor Leadership School in 1965 brought to Lander, Wyo., an influx of young people more interested in bagging peaks than branding cattle.