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unusual facts about fourteener


14K

14K, another term for Fourteener mountain peaks (above 14,000 feet) of Rocky Mountains in western North America.


Albert R. Ellingwood

Many mountain features are named for him, on peaks such as Middle Teton, on which Ellingwood made the first ascent, the Ellingwood Ridge of La Plata Peak, and the Ellingwood Arete ascent of Crestone Needle; the fourteener Ellingwood Point, near Blanca Peak in southern Colorado, is named for him as well.

Culebra

Culebra Peak, the southernmost fourteener in Colorado, United States

Dolores LaChapelle

This rare body of research includes hundreds of biographical files chronicling a rich lifetime of mountain climbs, as she climbed all 14K ((above 14,000 feet) mountains of Colorado Rockies by age 20, letter correspondence with authors and poets such as Gary Snyder and Art Goodtimes and her overlapping years married to pioneering avalanche and snow scientist Ed LaChapelle.


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