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Bates men’s cross country and track & field captain Jackson Monz ’26 saw his senior season ruined by injury. Two grade 4a stress reactions in his tibiae put him out of commission for the Bobcats. So he set his sights higher: 20,310 feet higher, to be exact. “Over winter break, I decided I had to do something cool,” Monz says. “So my dad suggested I take a look at the National Outdoor Leadership School’s Denali course.” Denali, federally designated as Mount McKinley, is the tallest mountain in North America. And when measured from base to peak, it’s the tallest mountain…