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Bob Bates, at 96; mountaineer taught English at Phillips Exeter

BOB BATES BOB BATES
By Bryan Marquard
Globe Staff / September 30, 2007

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Remote in the Yukon Territory's icy wilderness, Mount Lucania rises 17,150 feet and was the highest unclimbed peak in North America in 1937, so forbidding and inaccessible that Life magazine called it "virtually impregnable." (Full article: 1250 words)

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