Kerry Townsend, "Go Learn It on the Mountain," Financial Times, September 4, 2000.  

Cynthia Rosenberg, "Lideranca no ar Rarefeito," Exame, July, 2001 (Brazil). PDF (1 Mb).

Dalen Jacomino, "Ardu Escalad ao Topo," Voce S.A., July, 2001 (Brazil). PDF (4.4 Mb). 

Michael Useem, "The Leadership Lessons of Mount Everest," Harvard Business Review, October, 2001, pp. 51-58 (click here for a summary of the article and to order a copy from HBR).  

Michael Isaac, "Leadership Lessons from the Top of the World," Wharton Journal, January 22, 2002. 

Gopi Kallayil, "Leadership in the Himalayas: A Classroom on Top of the World," Wharton Leadership Digest, June, 2002. 

Therese Mancuso, "Leadership in the Himalayas: Lessons from the Trail," Wharton Leadership Digest, June, 2002. 

Books and articles on leadership, teamwork, trekking, mountaineering, Himalayan lore, and Nepalese culture are usefully read as preparation for the trek. The readings serve as a basis for our daily seminars on the trek.  Readings for one of the recent treks included:  

Edwin Bernbaum, Sacred Mountains of the World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Arlene Blum, Annapurna: A Woman's Place. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1998.

Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston Dewalt, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Maurice Herzog, Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak. New York: Dutton, 1997.

James Hilton, Lost Horizon. New York: Pocket Books, 1991.

Thomas F. Hornbein, Everest, The West Ridge. New York : Mountaineers Books, 1998.

Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. New York: Random House, 1997.

Mary-Jo O'Rourke and Bimal Shrestha, Lonely Planet Nepali Phrasebook. Oakland, Ca.: Lonely Planet Publications, 1996 (3rd edition).

Swami Pradhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, translators, The Song of God: Bhagavad-Gita. New York: New American Library, 1993.

Philip Rawson, Sacred Tibet. Thames & Hudson, 1991.

A course reader with the articles and excerpts below is also sent to the participants during the fall.

Edwin Bernbaum, The Way to Shambala: The Search for the Mythical Kingdom Beyond the Himalayas. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980.

Chapter 1. "Behind the Ranges"
Chapter 3, "The Hidden Valleys"
Chapter 5, "The Wheel of Time"

Edward Conze, translator, Buddhist Scriptures (Penguin Classics). New York: Viking Press, 1959 reprint, excerpts.

James F. Fisher, Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, Ch. 2, "A Tradition of Change" and Ch. 6, "Summary and Conclusion."

Christoph von Furer-Haimendorff, The Sherpas of Nepal: Buddhist Highlanders. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964, pp. 281-283.

Trip Gabriel, "Scaling Corporate Heights Without Going Over a Cliff," New York Times, June 1, 1997, p. F 10.

Bowen McCoy, "The Parable of the Sadhu," Harvard Business Review, September-October, 1983, pp. 103-108.

Excerpts from The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, Witter Bynner, translator. New York: Berkeley Publishing Group, 1986 reprint.

We recommend reading John Gardner's On Leadership (New York: Free Press, 1993) and Mike Useem's The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All (New York: Times Books/Random House, 1998) as general foundations for thinking about leadership.