Milton Academy’s Outdoor Program boasts an unusually rich history.

Originally dubbed the Milton Academy Ski and Mountaineering Club, it was born in the 1940s and led by the legendary mountaineer H. Adams Carter ’32, who directed the program for nearly 40 years. Ad Carter spoke several languages, is credited with several first ascents and, for decades, edited one of the world’s premier mountaineering publications, American Alpine Journal. The government of Peru named a glacier in the Cordillera Blanca mountains after Mr. Carter.

In the mid-1990s, a Milton graduate endowed a fund to ensure that the spirit of serious outdoor education and recreation established by the late Mr. Carter would live on at Milton.