Many climb peaks each year.
I passed fifty people climbing Mt. Elbert. Another indication that climbing Colorado's highest peaks is not very difficult is the sheer number of people who succeed each summer. After descending from Torrey's Peak one weekend in August, I counted over seventy cars in the parking lot. On a week the previous August, I passed fifty people in various stages of climbing Mt. Elbert. Its parking lot today, to accommodate the number of climbers, is about a quarter-mile long.