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Hope In The Desert (an excerpt from American Climber by Luke Mehall)

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Then, when all seemed like peace had been restored to my existence, 9/11 happened. I was out on a morning jog, something I’d added to my climbing training, and I was listening to the radio on my Walkman. The song on the radio was interrupted: the United States had been attacked, and the first World…

Hope In The Desert (an excerpt from American Climber by Luke Mehall)

A climber looks to the Moab desert for hope after 9-11.

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