Part 1 of Essay
Imagine, a mountain that has taken the lives of two people and has hardly ever been climbed. This was the mountain that was climbed in the summer of 1998 by my father, my best friend and me. It is called, Sawtooth Ridge, creeping to an elevation just under 10,000 feet, eighty-nine switch-backs, and a distance just under ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... smelled of fear, but it was what everyone came to do. Right when everyone started out it was no problem. Each step came with ease and grace. The view around was beautiful. It was unlike anyone could ever imagine. When the group got to only the tenth switch-back they all looked about and could see the beauty of the valley floor and where they had just started out that day. It looked like a little green dot painted into the valley floor by an artist and his brush. I did not realize how hard it would be unt ....