As part of Professor Derek Buescher's Rhetoric of Adventure First-Year Seminar, Mike wrote a paper entitled "Tragic Ambition In Thin Air: Into The Climb on Everest: An Inquiry into the 1996 Everest Tragedy." Mike presented his paper at FreshFest, an event where first-year seminar students present their work before an audience of their peers and members of the campus community. Read an excerpt by clicking the link below.
Read an excerpt from Mike's paper