Mike Dalton RKMP Director

Berkshire School boasts an asset no other college preparatory school can claim: Mt. Everett, the second highest mountain in Massachusetts. Berkshire celebrates the mountain it lies beneath with the Ritt Kellogg Mountain Program, named after a 1985 alumnus who died in 1992 while climbing Mt. Foraker in Alaska.

The Ritt Kellogg Mountain Program (RKMP) strives to teach students a greater respect for their natural resources. RKMP faculty offer afternoon alternatives to traditional team sports (see below) and a Beyond the Mountain program through which they guide students across the globe. They help create a healthy group dynamic among sports team using the low and high initiatives of the program’s ropes course. Finally, the RMKP provides both leadership and financial support in the campus-wide commitment to environmental stewardship.

The RKMP offers students a variety of activities that allow them to gain greater insight into themselves and the world around them, and to learn and develop as individuals within the natural environment.

Students may participate in RKMP programs in lieu of a competitive sport. Programs run for approximately eight weeks, or the duration of each athletic season.

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Ritt Kellogg '85  (1966-1992)

"Ritt Kellogg didn't just live life — he devoured it," says Steve Kaczmarek '85, a friend and classmate of Ritt's at both Berkshire and Colorado College. "For him, life was a spectacular journey, never a destination." Above all, Ritt Kellogg loved the outdoors. His affection for the Berkshire campus and the mountain that surrounds it, inspires everyone at Berkshire School to study, respect and preserve our natural environment. In 1994, Ritt's friends and the Kellogg family celebrated his life with an endowment to establish the Ritt Kellogg Mountain Program.