“The highest wind ever observed by man was recorded here.” An ominous sign at the summit of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington ...

Weather observers on Mount Washington endure extreme cold and high winds to collect crucial data, maintaining one of the longest U.S. climatological records.

So when I was asked to write about Mount Washington, I wanted him to join me. We could revisit old battlegrounds, try once more for the summit. "I guess it's fitting," he wrote back. "Kind of like ...