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I had always taught juniors and fresh­man. When I came back home and start­ing teach­ing in the fall, I had seniors for the first time. Between Skull Rapid and Last Chance Rapid, I was catch­ing my breath on the South Summit. My hus­band and I had dri­ven out from the Catskill region of New York last year to Canyon Coun­try, tow­ing our raft trail­er, and spent two weeks float­ing stretch­es of the Col­orado and Green Rivers.īy the time we got to West­wa­ter Canyon, I could not put the book down. I liked Krakauer and already taught Into the Wild to my seniors who take my col­lege cred­it-bear­ing class. I for­get what book I brought with me to read, but I was­n’t read­ing it. I wan­dered into Back of Beyond Book­store while on vaca­tion with my hus­band, and there it was: a used copy of Into Thin Air. Thank you to the stu­dents of Ellenville High School in New York for shar­ing your sto­ries and essays with us, and thank you to teacher Kristy Wil­son for shar­ing her story: It sounds like the stu­dents have been total­ly cap­tured by the adven­ture and tragedy of the book and have tak­en away some valu­able lessons for every­day life. We were espe­cial­ly hap­py to receive a note from a teacher in New York who has been teach­ing Into Thin Air to her Eng­lish stu­dents.

Over 15 years lat­er, we’re proud and hon­ored to see that Scott Fis­cher’s lega­cy still inspires young peo­ple all over the world.