Just shy of 3,000 feet, Jeffrey Wright took a selfie with a panorama of peaks and a bluebird sky behind him. “It was just absolutely beautiful up there,” he said. “It’s really indescribable.” A few minutes later, he was plummeting down the mountainside.
Jeffrey Wright took this selfie from a vista atop Mt. Verstovia in Sitka just minutes before he fell over 1,100 feet down the side of the snowy peak. Wright lived to tell the tale, albeit with serious injuries. 61-year-old Jeffrey Wright is a lifelong Sitkan and an avid outdoorsman.
“There’s something about doing something by yourself,” Wright said. “You’re in the moment. You’re absolutely awake, absolutely alive.” “I made a mistake. I shouldn’t I shouldn’t have crossed at that point,” he said. “Because once I fell, I was on the way. And there was no stopping.” “But then things changed, and everything went like a yellow, whitish — and then it was clear,” Wright said. “That’s what I was seeing. And I got very calm. There was no pain. I had no fear. Yeah, it was very peaceful. And then, the next thing I know, I’m reaching for my phone.”
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