IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – A group of friends from Iowa City has been running a 120-mile relay race each year to honor Ben Ryan, who died in a Colorado avalanche in 2023 at age 31.
Ben pushed his friends and family out of their comfort zone, helping others people around him to try new things and seek out difficult challenges.
“He was just an adventurous spirit,” his brother Nate Ryan said. “The maintains called his name.”…