Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a son of sharecroppers who rose to become one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress and a central figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump, died on Thursday in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was 68.

Excerpt from the award winning 2009 Banff Mountain Film Festival short "Mont Blanc -- Speed Flying" directed and produced by Didier Lafond; the soundtrack is from the composition "I Give Up" written and performed by Elijah Bossenbroek.