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This Day in Minnesota History

January 3, 1999

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ISBN: 0873514165
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Duluth's Ed Hommer is the first double amputee to reach the top of Mount McKinley (20,320 feet). He had lost his legs to frostbite after a plane crash on the mountain in 1981.

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