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COURTESY OF BARBARA SOMERS REPASS
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

A lost Seattle climber's family seeks an elusive peace

Wally Somers, a self-taught Cascades climber, was young, strong and eager. "And safe," says his widow, Barbara Repass, who 39 years later still wonders: "I don't know why he would have walked out on that glacier."