Growing up, Tara Risby heard plenty of stories from her dad, the late Yukon prospector Peter Risby.
She heard about how Peter, injured in the Korean War, once spent a few months in a Japanese hospital. Then there was the time he went over a cliff in a truck and came away uninjured. Oh, and there was also that helicopter crash that almost killed him and left him with a permanent scar on his cheek.
“We dubbed him ‘the cat with nine lives’ because he just had so many unbelievable experiences,” Tara recalled.
“Yeah, he had quite a storied life.”
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