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I Didn't Die in Montana: Hank Williams Jr. on Ajax MT

I Didn't Die in Montana: Hank Williams Jr. on Ajax MT

Distinctly Montana Stories
• 14 min
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On August 8, 1975, Hank Williams Jr. set out to hunt mountain goats on Ajax Peak, on the Montana-Idaho border near Wisdom. He was 26, the son of a country music legend, and the heaviest of the three hikers crossing a late-summer snowfield near the summit. He stepped into his guide's footprint. Something under his right foot moved. What followed was a fall so catastrophic that the men who reached his body couldn't believe he was still alive.