# Vern Clevenger

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{{Short description|American mountain climber and photographer (born 1955)}}
'''Vern Clevenger''' (born 1955 in [Oakland, California](/source/Oakland%2C_California)) is a noted [climber](/source/climbing) and [landscape](/source/landscape) [photographer](/source/photographer). He made the first ascent of [Cholatse](/source/Cholatse) in 1982. He lives in [Mammoth Lakes, California](/source/Mammoth_Lakes%2C_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](/source/Yosemite_National_Park).<ref>''Off The Wall: Death in Yosemite,'' Puma Press, 2007, p.135</ref> These efforts paid off with his first Nikon camera system. Clevenger shows his work at the Clevenger Gallery and Studio, in [Mammoth Lakes, California](/source/Mammoth_Lakes%2C_California), assisted by his wife Margaret, son Dylan, and daughter Sabrina.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sierra Sojourns|last=Jane|first=Freeburg|publisher=Companion Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0944197868}}</ref>

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