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Vern Clevenger (born 1955 Oakland California) is a noted climber and landscape photographer. He made the first ascent of Cholatse in 1982. He lives in Mammoth Lakes California with his wife and two children Dylan and Sabrina. On April 13 1977 Clevenger was arrested looting the crashed wreckage of a drug-smuggling airplane in Yosemite National Park.