Tag: Mountaineering
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Coloradans representing historic, all-Black mission to Everest
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thomas Moore, a young entrepreneur from Georgia, was well-traveled by 2017, having visited more than 40 countries. But when he was invited to join an expedition up Mount Kilimanjaro that year, Moore found himself unaware of the mountain or any of the other six highest…
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Pikes Peak’s ‘bolt war’ remains unresolved: ‘Neither side is backing down’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than a month after public revelations of a “bolt war,” a heated climbing dispute on Pikes Peak shows no signs of cooling. Phil Wortmann, a local school teacher and alpinist widely respected for raising…
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Meet the woman behind Colorado’s new 100-mountain record
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On her drive home after another ascent of 14,005-foot Mount of the Holy Cross, Andrea Sansone got a call from her boyfriend, Andrew Hamilton, who said a reporter was looking to interview her. “I was like, Why?” Sansone recalls. “Like, no one ever wants to…
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With green box on back, woman goes from zero Colorado 14ers to all 54
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In mid-September, near the end of her mission to climb all of Colorado’s 54 14,000-foot peaks, Brittney Woodrum thought she would come up short. Making matters worse on the snow-packed Crestone Needle was the wind that howled, throwing off her balance with a bulky, green…