Life on a South Korean Icebreaker

Back in 2019, I abandoned a moderately successful but financially viable career in project management and consulting to pursue a passion project in snow science at Montana State University. Fueled by an interest in mountaineering, backcountry skiing, and an enduring suspicion that corporate America was not my calling, I managed to finish a PhD and found myself eating kimchi on a Korean icebreaker in the middle of the Southern Ocean – twice.