When an Instagram-famous rock climber comes to an untimely death, his friends and admirers gather to memorialize him.
This story appears in Kim Fu's collection LESSER KNOWN MONSTERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY, published by Tin House.
Content advisory: Description of death
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