CHAPTER FOUR
To Serve a Community
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Outward Bound has led people deep into wilderness settings, up mountains, out on the seas, and on ropes courses in the United States since the early 1960s with very few accidents. Hanging on a rope on the side of a cliff sixty feet above the ground can seem fraught with danger. But the reality is, those events are thoroughly vetted, and the staff is trained to manage the risks. Systems have built-in safety redundancies, and Outward Bound leaders are mentored, trained, and promoted based on their ability to safely manage risk. The vast majority of accidents that do happen are minor. They rarely involve things ...
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