Associate Professor Margret Grebowicz on the Future of Mountain Climbing

Associate Professor Margret Grebowicz has a piece on The Atlantic website about the team planning to climb K2 in the Himalayas, also known as the “Savage Mountain.” K2 is one of the most challenging mountains in the world, and the only one to never have been successfully climbed in winter. This team of Polish mountaineers wants to be the first.

The essay examines some of the history and culture of mountaineering as well as what the future may hold for the sport once this last “first” is accomplished.

Margret Grebowicz is an associate professor of philosophy at Goucher and the author of Whale Song, part of the Object Lessons series published by Bloomsbury in partnership with The Atlantic.