MU associate professor survives Spanish mountain

Thursday, January 21, 2010

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- If he'd just had the right equipment, it might not have happened. Or had the weather been more cooperative, it would have been a normal climb. But the fates didn't align for Sean Ireton -- a University of Missouri associate professor of German -- and this month he took a nasty spill on Spain's highest mountain that shattered his kneecap and forced him to descend some 9,000 feet on makeshift crutches.

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