Round River Stories: Summer 2025 – Return to Mongolia

TJ Guercio, Mongolia ’22 alum, returned as an Assistant Instructor for Round River’s Mongolia Summer 2025 program…
Round River’s Story

Telling stories about important experiences is hard to get right. I have spent decades thinking about this. Not only because Round River’s story is a great one, filled with science, adventure, friendship, and magic, but also because it is next to impossible to clearly communicate what alchemy moves our hearts into action, or causes our hardened perceptions to soften and change.
Round River Stories: Linky le Roux Ohm – Namibia 2003

One of my most powerful memories from Namibia was tracking the critically endangered black rhino across the vast, rugged landscape of the Kunene Region—a place of stark beauty, where mountains rise from the desert like ancient sentinels, and sunsets drip slowly into the endless horizon…