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FALL 2018
GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVES
ON THE COVER
“Nanda Devi” by Keenan Ernste '19
Biology in South India
“During a short break from our studies
in South India, we traveled to the
state of Uttarakhand in North India
to embark on a four-day trek in the
Himalayas. Each evening as the sun
set behind us, it would cast soft purple
and orange light on Nanda Devi, the
23rd-highest mountain in the world.”
ST. OLAF MAGAZINE
Fall 2018 · Volume 65 · No. 3
EDITOR
Carole Leigh Engblom
ART DIRECTOR
Don Bratland '87
COPY EDITOR
Laura Hamilton Waxman
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Renata Erickson '19, Marla Hill Holt '88,
Kim Ode, Jeff Sauve
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
John Danicic, Richard Friedman/Polaris
(Boston), Brian Peterson (Star Tribune),
Tom Roster, Fernando Sevilla, Michael
Sofronski (NYC)
Re
FALL 2018 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
ON THE COVER “Nanda Devi” by Keenan Ernste '19 Bi
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