Which was one reason she was excited to tackle the Coast Range traverse: It had the tantalizing potential to fill her inner emptiness. Except it seemed that it would be men who completed the Coast Range route first. Lena would do both—but only after her Coast Range journey brought her face-to-face with death. Then, in the summer of 1999, Peter took his daughters to climb Mount Waddington, the highest peak in the Coast Range Mountains at 13,000 feet. On July 16, the Coast Range team stepped into the Alaskan mining town of Skagway.