Personal Life
Mortenson lived in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife Tara Bishop, a clinical psychologist, and their two children, Amira and Khyber. Diagnosed in the spring of 2011 with an aneurysm and an atrial septal defect, Mortenson underwent surgery for both in June of the same year.
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