An Uphill Battle

Anthony Camera

Steve Powers (above) used to climb in Eldorado Canyon with his best friend, Lance Hering.

Lance Hering was crazy for climbing and thought that joining the Marines would keep him in peak physical condition.

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"If this is all paranoid delusion, I would be happier," he says. "But to me, the question is not whether or not the information was true, but whether it was possibly true. If it turns out we did this whole thing for some really dumb reason, which I don't think is possible, I'm still going to say that with the time I had and the information I had, I made the right choice."

He did the only thing he could -- what his best friend asked. "I absolutely miss him," Steve says. "I miss him every day. But it's weird, you know? Even though I know he's gone, I still always expect him to call me up out of the blue one day and say, 'Hey, Steve. It's Lance. You want to go climbing?'"