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Here is a morbidly-curious question for any Whitney historians:
has anyone dropped dead on the summit? Surely it must have happened. (falling off does not "count" for this question)I don't have any knowledge of the summit, but just in the past year, one fellow died of a heart attack on the trail. I think he was ~64, hiking with his son. Another died in October descending from the summit, of AMS.
...as for me.... I'd like to be found in my back yard on a sunny springtime afternoon, too old to hike anymore, but not too old to get around the yard and care for the flowers. On the day before I am no longer able to do that, I'd like to lie down and go to sleep forever.
