This picture of Maynard Cohick ended up being taken during an expedition by which he reached the summit associated with the tallest mountain in Russia: Mount Communism at 24,595 legs. The area happens to be into the country of Tajikistan and it is called Ismoil Somoni Peak. (picture: presented picture)

We first went the Cohick Half Marathon, the 12 months We relocated to Springfield. The word “Cohick” had been prominent on my racing that is long-sleeved top. I just assumed “Cohick” had been a company that is local had been a battle sponsor.

I have come to discover it is really not an organization. It is a guy: Maynard Cohick, a legal professional whom lived in Republic whom passed away at age 41.

He had been on an expedition to summit Annapurna we, the tenth greatest peak on the planet at 26,545 legs into the Himalayas, as he ended up being hidden by the avalanche.

Their human body continues to be here, over the clouds in Nepal. He left out a spouse and three kiddies.

Just 3 months after their death, the initial Maynard Cohick Memorial Half Marathon, 5K and fun run were held, sponsored because of the Ozark Mountain Ridge Runners. The very first battle received 176 runners. It began at Catholic Senior High School.

Weekend the race became part of the Bass Pro Shops Marathon. Which includes the Conservation Marathon plus the News-Leader 5K.

Those events will undoubtedly be contested Sunday, Nov. 1. We shall be operating the Cohick Half Marathon once more.

Who had been Maynard Cohick?

Maynard Cohick had been an adventurer whom lived life full-throttle. He saw things handful of us will ever see. He embraced dangers number of us would ever look for.

He scaled hills, sailed the Southern Pacific, he skydived, scuba dived across the Great Barrier Reef, surfed, did mountain climbing, went, trained and biked such as for instance a madman.

He did every thing with passion and just just exactly what buddies say had been an enthusiasm that is contagious.

A day at Plaza Towers to prepare for the agony of high-altitude climbing, he would load a backpack with 125 pounds and trek up the 10 flights of stairs 10 times.

“”He said he desired to observe how cool it gets.””

Bill Hart, other climber

He once asked a judge for permission to wear a pair of massive hiking boots in court to help break them in before he left for Nepal. Movement awarded.

Retired attorney Bill Hart recalls their climb up Longs Peak, 14,259 legs when you look at the Colorado Rockies. They’d started at 1 a.m. aided by the heat at 20-below. Hours later on, they made camp.

Hart and Cohick and two other guys huddled within their tent.

“He opens the tent and tosses their resting case away,” Hart claims of Cohick.

“ we asked him, ‘What are you currently doing?’

“He stated it gets. he wished to observe how cool”

He headed west for adventure

Weldon Cohick Jr., seven years older, taught their sibling Maynard to swim.

There have been three males and three girls into the family members. They spent my youth in a five-room household without electricity or operating water outside Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, 84 miles west of Wilkes-Barre.

Their daddy had been a carpenter. He additionally ended up being an alcoholic as well as a husband that is abusive based on a guide co-authored by Maynard Cohick along with his spouse, Jeanne.

Maynard’s mom fundamentally asked her spouse to go out of, which he did, in line with the book, posted and modified by previous News-Leader reporter Susan Atteberry Smith.

“All he did ended up being stay around and smoke cigars and beverage,” Weldon claims of these dad. “My mom ended up being the hero of the family members.”

Weldon is likely to be 88 on Nov. 5. Just he and cousin Maxine survive.

Weldon informs me a spirit was shared by him of adventure with Maynard.

He says“ I taught Maynard how to swim in a little stream about a mile from our house. “Whatever we taught myself, I would personally show my brother Maynard that is little.”

1 day, Weldon went swimming in a flow together with his friend Harry. They had been about 14. Maynard, 7, ended up being together with them.

“I became stating that we had taught Maynard to be a swimmer that is good” Weldon states. “So Harry states he really wants to race Maynard over the flow, touch a stone, and keep coming back. Harry told Maynard he could be beaten by him and Maynard stated, ‘I do not think therefore.'”

“The crick had not been that wide nonetheless it had been 5 to 9 his response foot deep. They were told by me when you should get and my buddy overcome him by around three or four supply shots. It simply tickled me personally that I taught my brother that is little to therefore well.”

As a child, Maynard find out about history’s great explorers and told their household which he, too, could be an explorer, relating to a 1979 News-Leader tale.

Their very very very first task ended up being being a linotype operator during the regional newsprint in Pennsylvania. A linotype machine ended up being as soon as utilized to create steel kind for newsprint publishing.

It was a ability Cohick would fall straight back on as a man that is young. He’d set sail for a visit halfway around the globe, as an example, and go back to find a task at magazines across the world to pocket enough money to fund their next journey.

Cohick graduated school that is high stayed house for per year working during the paper.

As soon as he’d conserved sufficient, Cohick headed to Ca to become listed on their cousin Melvin.

He sought neither fame nor fortune. He had been looking for adventure.

He discovered it. He climbed every mountain that is tall Ca, Oregon and Washington.

He sailed from Hawaii to Los Angeles.

He and a buddy bicycled 1,200 kilometers from Seattle to l . a ., resting in areas through the night.

He fell deeply in love with Jeanne Meyer, that has relocated from Indiana to Ca whenever she had been 6.

She told him she would wait for him because, first, he’d intends to set sail again — this time around to New Zealand.

Cohick had been section of a team of five on a cutter that is 52-foot sailed through tropical islands such as for instance Tonga, Tahiti and Bora Bora.

In Auckland, brand brand brand New Zealand, he landed a working work during the paper. However in Sydney he landed a page from their draft board.

The Army delivered him to Seoul, Southern Korea, where he served in a missile battalion for just two years and took enough time to make a belt that is brown judo.

Jeanne nevertheless waited. Finally, from Seoul, he proposed in a page.

These were wed, in Anaheim, Ca.

Maynard Cohick and Jeanne Meyer had been wed, in Anaheim, Ca. (picture: presented picture)

Cohick worked as a policeman in Fullerton, where he signed up for university.

Their son Steven was created and child Julie.