The Mountain of Death 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 two miles. You would think that this hike would not be much, right? Well, you are wrong. This mountain is the most challenging hike in the Trinity Alps region. It taught me fear, joy, adrenaline, and the most realistic dread of heights ever imagined. That summer it became known to me why they called it Sawtooth Ridge by experiencing it first hand. At the base of Sawtooth it seemed as if the mountain just rose above you like a sky-scrapping building. ....

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