A Cheney High School graduate died last week while climbing the 10,047-foot Middle Sister mountain in Oregon’s Three Sisters Wilderness west of Bend.
According to news releases from the Lane County Sheriff’s Office in Eugene, a 15-person search team found the body of 39-year-old Benjamin Newkirk approximately 800 – 900 feet below where he fell as he was descending the peak Nov. 12 with a climbing partner.
Newkirk and his partner were at approximately 9,500 feet on the southeast ridge of Middle Sister and returning to their 7,000-foot-high base camp at Camp Lake when around 10 p.m., he fell off...
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