Down to the Wire

Posted on: December 1, 2002


The icon of Alaskan climbing struggled back from viral meningitis only to be struck down by the rare and deadly Guillane-Barre Syndrome. His first trip back to the big mountains was going well— until a briefcase-size stone bore down.

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