News Feature - 3rd prize
Randy Eli Grothe
The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News
01 January, 1982
The Conquest of Guadalupe Peak (2667m). Vietnam veteran Joe Moss gives Bobby Leyes a push along a rocky portion of the trail. Both men are members of a paraplegic mountain-climbing team that use specially-adapted wheelchairs packed with camping equipment. They climbed for five days to the top of Texas' highest mountain; for an able-bodied person, the climb would take only four hours. A five-man team began the climb but only three reached the top.