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Posted on: July 10, 2013


During a violent 2006 storm on Mt. Rainier's Liberty Ridge, Michael J. Ybarra and his partners struggled not to lose their fingers or their lives. A year after Michael's death in the Sierra Nevada, the artist Andreas Schmidt illustrates his story as our tribute.

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