High Country News welcomed new interns in January: Wufei Yu from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Surya Milner from Bozeman, Montana.
As a young boy from Beijing, Yu wanted to write about sports: “I started to not just contend with the game itself, and the news itself which is all about scores, who scored how many goals but the personal memoirs of athletes,” he said.
Wufei Yu at Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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After moving to New York to attend Columbia University’s journalism school in 2018, Yu continued writing about sports, with a bent toward outdoor adventure. He soon ditched the city for the deserts of New Mexico, working as a fellow for