NOLS New Zealand is open

By Roo Riley

Jan 11, 2015

NOLS New Zealand is now open for the season. We all enjoyed a classic New Zealand holiday break with heavy rain and scorching hot days.

 

New Zealand in-town staff for the 2015 season New Zealand in-town staff for the 2015 season: (Top row) Wes, Joy, Puja, Sheldon, Andy. (Bottom row) TC, Christian, Jordy, Camine, Roo.

This season we are running three Spring Semesters and two 30-day backpacking courses. The first courses start next week.

If you would like to send mail to students at NOLS New Zealand, please send to the address below. Allow 10-14 days for delivery. Please write their couse code after their name.

Students Name & course code
NOLS New Zealand
4 Serpentine River Road
Aniseed Valley RD1
Richmond 7081
New Zealand

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Roo Riley

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DesLauriers, a NOLS Semester in Alaska ’91 graduate, who currently resides in Jackson, Wyoming, is one of the most well-known ski mountaineers around the world and a nominee for the 2015 Adventures of the Year Award. This award is presented by National Geographic and selected by readers. It recognizes people who have helped make our year in adventure that much better. Through exploration, adventure sports, conservation, and humanitarianism DesLauriers has shown her dedication to her passion in life.

You can vote for DesLauriers every day until Jan. 31.

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From early childhood, DesLauriers remembers having had a passion for the outdoors, whether it was hiking in the desert or canoeing down a river with her family. By the age of 19, DesLauriers was ready to take her adventure abroad and traveled to France to study at the University of Marseilles. Once October break came about, she took advantage of her location and traveled to Switzerland to backpack through the Alps.

“I realized that with some formal training to supplement my desire to see the world, I, too, could go to these far off places,” she said she realized while reading through some books at a local’s cabin. Little did she know, NOLS was going to give her this opportunity.

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