- Kent Evans and Bill Gates were best friends in eighth grade.
- He attended Lakeside School
- He was as skilled as Gates and Allen
- Gates and Kent Evans, once, solved the complex problem of class scheduling for the school.
- Unlike Paul Allen, he shared Bill’s business mind and endless ambition
- But, he died in a mountaineering accident before he graduated high school
How unlucky was he?
- Every year there are around 3 dozen mountaineering deaths in the United States. Source
- The odds of being killed on a mountain in high school are roughly one in a million.
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