High on the Wind Rivers

Duration: 32

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Richard Catron

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the 35-day adventure of ten students and their teachers in an outdoor school in the Wind Rivers Mountains in Wyoming. Takes the students on a practical rather than theoretical program which includes mountain climbing, crossing gorges, foraging for food, all of which culminate in a 50 mile, five-day survival trek. Examines how the students' values and lives were changed by their experiences., Eight backpacking students spend five weeks in "outdoor school" in the Wind Rivers Mountains of Wyoming. They acquire skills and techniques of mountaineering and wilderness survival, and form new values of what is important in life. A week-long survival hike with no supplies is the focus of this film.

Complete Record: Traces the 35-day adventure of ten students and their teachers in an outdoor school in the Wind Rivers Mountains in Wyoming. Takes the students on a practical rather than theoretical program which includes mountain climbing, crossing gorges, foraging for food, all of which culminate in a 50 mile, five-day survival trek. Examines how the students' values and lives were changed by their experiences., Follows a group of youths in a outdoor school in the Wyoming mountains as they learn about mountaineering, wilderness survival, and their reactions under stress in a totally natural environment. , Eight backpacking students spend five weeks in "outdoor school" in the Wind Rivers Mountains of Wyoming. They acquire skills and techniques of mountaineering and wilderness survival, and form new values of what is important in life. A week-long survival hike with no supplies is the focus of this film.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.