Tag: Mountain Climbing
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Private 14er in Colorado opens hiking reservations
Reservations have opened to hike a privately owned 14,000-foot mountain in southern Colorado. The mountain is “like no other,” reads the billing on Cielo Vista Ranch’s website: “Culebra Peak offers a unique climbing experience. Unlike any other fourteener in Colorado, hiking impacts are largely absent — Culebra is essentially ‘untrailed.’” Unlike every fourteener sitting on public…
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Fast-rising Colorado mountain runner sets records across Himalayas
Alongside a few fellow American mountaineers, Chris Fisher recently celebrated his 29th birthday in an Irish pub perched high amid the Himalayas. This was no occasion for contemplating the future, the confines of time. And yet there Fisher was nights later, contemplating just that. The young Coloradan was near the end of a record-setting odyssey…