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Names in the News - Aug. 4, 1987

Ultra-runner Gil Cornell of Ridgecrest completed the 146-mile run-climb from Bad Water in Death Valley, the lowest point in the United States at 282 feet below sea level, to the top of Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48 states at 14,494 feet, in a record 45 hours 15 minutes over the weekend.

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