Monica riding Chair 14 (most of Mammoth's chairs do not have names other than a number designation) with the impossibly picturesque and daunting Minaret range in the background. These spiky craggy spires are playgrounds for expert climbers and mountaineers. A tragic footnote is that adventurer and millionaire Steve Fossett died in a plane crash when his private plane struck one of the minarets, at approximately just to the left of the bar from the chair in the background.