Schaeffer’s friend, from France, follows Schaeffer up the deadly 16,000 foot headwall.
“Bri, zip lining.”
“Seth, holding my pocket knife.”
The first and only visit in years with his children.
“Skydiving friends.”
The first time Bri has ever met her father, in prison.
“Bri, having fun, playing.”
“Pre-trial, bail was set in the millions.”
“Bri and her cat.”
Schaeffer’s sister, nephew, brother, and chicken.”
“Just a few months after I was sentenced to 27 years.”
“Sleepover with family.”
“Left to Right, Gary Cox, Schaeffer Cox, Joe Nichols”
“Seth on our sailboat (dive compressor seen above).”
“Cleaning fish at the greenhouse, 2014”
“Skips through the flowers about the same time I am moved to the CMU.”
“Playing in the sun, the summer after my arrest.”
Seth 2015
“The skyplane “runway” at Denali basecamp.”
“Unfurling Alaska flag on summit of Mt. McKinley.”
Schaeffer’s kids, nieces, and nephews
“Bri at museum.”
Sitka, Alaska
“Headstand on the summit of Mt. McKinley.”
“My favorite surf spot near Sitka.”
Seth, age 5
Seth, age 5
“Freeze drying our clothes after washing them. I’m in the blue hat.”
“Eian (from England), BJ (from Germany), and Me (from Alaska) stuck together in an igloo during a bad storm, at 15,000 feet.”
“The harbor at Sitka.”
Schaeffer (yellow), Roger (blue), “summit on a sunny day far above the clouds. Picture taken by a passing private jet!”
Schaeffer (yellow) “and a team of French and Danish climbers haul an injured climber to safety. Too high for helicopters to fly; climbers on Denali must rescue each other.”
“Highcamp on McKinley is in the Death Zone. My tent is yellow, far lower left, VE-2T.”
“Schaeffer’s sister, hiking.”
“The Lighthouse at Sitka.”
“The bridge from Sitka, AK to the airport across the Chanel. Tracks are for hauling heavy boats out of the water for maintenance.”
“Typical fishing tender settles into the mud at low tide for a quick change of zincs and to scrape off the barnacles.”
