Winter School 2024: Lecture 7 - Cave Rescue - Stories from Alaska

Leaders
Vasiliy Sysoev, Yunting Fang
Type
Other
Trip date
Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
Difficulty rating
easy

This is the 7th lecture of Winter School 2024!

This lecture will take place on campus in room 6-120 from 7pm to 9pm.

Guest speaker: Greg Moore

Greg Moore, a Class of 90 grad from RPI, will be talking about his experience as a caver, caving in general, and cave rescue, with highlights on his participation in the Weybridge Cave Rescue in 2013. Greg Moore is a caver who works with the NCRC (National Cave Rescue Commission) as an instructor and as the database coordinator.

Guest speaker: Luc Mehl

Luc Mehl grew up on the Kuskokwim River in interior Alaska and now lives in Anchorage. With graduate degrees from UCSB and MIT, he applies academic and village skillsets to his work as a swiftwater safety instructor and environmental data scientist. Luc has traveled over 10,000 miles by packraft, skis, bike, and ice skates; he will share stories from his multisport climb of Denali as well as other winter adventures by ski and ice skate.

Winter School

Winter School is MITOC’s annual winter outdoors extravaganza, and our largest event of the year. Every weekend during IAP you will have the opportunity to get outdoors, learn new skills, meet other MITOC folks, and explore the wilderness in New England.

Winter School is open to anyone who wants to get outside during the winter!

TIM Ticket If you are joining us after 7pm, you can access the building with a TIM ticket.


Signup

Algorithm
first-come, first-serve
Maximum participants
143
Signups opened at
Jan. 16, 2024, 8:24 p.m.
Signups closed at
Jan. 30, 2024, 7 p.m.
Signups for this trip are closed.