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Climbing Giants

Writing the history of Colorado’s Famous 14,000 Foot Peaks


 

Longs Peak, Colorado (14,259)


The author skiing in the southern Sawatch Range 2020

Albert Ellingwood on the summit of Crestone Needle in 1916, a mountain once believed to be “unclimbable”

The author looking back on the summit of Mount Shavano (14,228) in 2023