To relieve the pressures of programming, Evans took up mountain climbing. One day Gates got a call from the headmaster Evans had been killed in a fall. I had never thought of people dying, ... At the service, I was supposed to speak, but I couldn't get up. For two weeks I couldn't do anything at all.
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