Those We Lost

"Delaney is survived by his wife, . . . and his daughter Hope, born three days before his death." This man left his wife at home to give birth alone so that he could climb a mountain? Climbing Everest was that important to him? Maybe his widow can find some way to explain to her daughter why she does not have a living father, but I think that's a heck of a legacy for a girl to grow up with.