Colorado’s Best Fourteeners for Alpine Hiking Adventures This Summer

Eighty million years after continental plates collided and forced the Rocky Mountains skyward, the Chinese ruler Shun began making ritualized ascents of small mountains around his kingdom. During this Xia Dynasty 4,000 years ago, countless disciples emulated their emperor and unknowingly introduced peak bagging to the world. Fast-forward several millennia—more precisely to 1923—when Colorado mountaineers …

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