Margaret Chicoine, lower left, leads a group of participants during the Flight of Silence as part of the 12th annual 9-11 Grand Stair Challenge held last Thursday morning. Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
Melissa Marshall of Hot Springs, center, holds a flag as she nears the top of the Grand Staircase during one of her flights as part of the 9-11 Grand Stair Challenge last Thursday morning. Photos by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
HOT SPRINGS — The 2025 “9-11 Memorial Grand Stair Challenge” on the Battle Mountain staircase leading from the center of Hot Springs to the VA Hospital may not have set new records for the number of participants or total ‘flights,’ but a few stories of grit and stamina were as compelling as any since the event was launched in 2014.Two young sisters climbed many more flights tha...