*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on August 26, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file is below. The text below does not match the audio; the text is meant to describe the context for the audio file. When I lined up this past Saturday for…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on August 19, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Even the Pikes Peak Marathon’s greatest champion, Matt Carpenter, has been brought to his knees by the mountain. His first Ascent race…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on August 12, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. The first official race to the top of Pikes Peak was on June 28, 1936. 27 started the nearly 13 mile-race up the…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on August 5, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. When snow turned him back from the first recorded American attempt to climb Pikes Peak, Zebulon Pike wrote, “I believe no human…