Pauls Toutonghi has written for聽The聽New Yorker, Granta,聽and other publications. He teaches at Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
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About an hour before midnight on Mother鈥檚 Day in 1986, a group of teenagers assembled at an Episcopal high school in Portland, Oregon, to embark on an expedition. Their goal was to summit Mount Hood, completing an adventure program that was required for all sophomores. What followed was a story of tragedy and loss that is commemorated annually at the institution it changed forever.