Nevada Barr, right. But the one I was thinking of was Jeff Long's Angels of Light. Also just ran across this longer excerpt from Mountain Gazette on this forum:

Lodestar part 1

There are some who think one of the climbers who died on a SAR was actually murdered as a result of supposedly having an address book or something in his possession from the wreck, but that story has always seemed a stretch to me.

But, anyway, another addition to the colorful history of Yosemite.

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