Monday, July 23, 2012

Dateline 1916: First Ascents of Crestone Needle and Peak

"The Sangre de Cristo mountains," wrote Albert R. Ellingwood, one of Colorado's greatest mountaineers in the early 20th century, "have the glamour of lost history--dim memories of Indian bands of French explorers and Spanish troops; they have the spell of the remote, the mystery of recesses that are little known; they are the kind of mountains one's imagination builds." It's not too difficult to imagine the significance at that time of three 14,000-foot peaks, 14,294-foot Crestone Peak, 14,197-foot Crestone Needle, and 14,165-foot Kit Carson Peak, in the central Sangre de Cristo Range--Colorado's last unclimbed and "unclimbable" Fourteeners.

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Source: http://climbing.about.com/b/2012/06/06/dateline-1916-first-ascents-of-crestone-needle-and-peak.htm

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