ELK GARDEN, W.Va. -- Tom Fitzpatrick, a burly, tattooed ex-Marine who still wears his hair "high and tight," had long regretted not qualifying for the elite sniper unit of the Corps. The program ...

Did you know that a 19th-century Irish trapper and mountain man helped emigrants reach the west coast of America in the 1800s by discovering South Pass in Wyoming? Thomas Fitzpatrick ...

was there as a doctor with a group preparing to climb the world’s tallest mountain. Nineteen people died at the base camp; 61 climbers have been rescued. David Fitzpatrick’s father ...