The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10
Tors OF MOUNTAINS TO CLINE.
Many Peaks so Rugged that No One
Has let Dared 10 Climb Them.

Has let Dared 10 Climb Them.
The terrible Jungfrau OF Switzerland
is but l4.OOO feet high. yet travellers
from all over the world journey TO Ia
terlaken 10 climb il OF say they have
sat In the hotel and wished that they
might climb il. Mont Blanc, in the
same delightful little European repub-
lie, is forever quilted with snow, and
for this reason is one OF the most Sc
ductive features OF travel to the neigh.
bOrhOod OF Geneva. The Choir health
resort. on the east side of the Swiss re-
public. is visited by thousands OF in
valids because ii is one of the loftiest
and noblest OF European sanitariums.
Then why should not every Ameri-
can who has money TO spare and the
desire TO make journey out into Col
orado. strap pair OF mountain boots
on his legs. put spike on an ash stat
and attempt to climb Mount Blanca,
In the southern part of this state.
Mount Blanca is over Il, 400 feet high.
Or II he does not desire TO take the
risks Of this perllous ascent why should
not he come up Ito the northern part
of this state, place his field glasses IN
his hands and gaze on the glacier and
the perpetual banks of snow that cover
Mt Hallett3 Or II tourists be pos
sessed OF reverence and piety, why may
they not locate In Central Colorado and
fix their eyes upon the great white
cross that indents the Mount OF the
Holy Cross at an elevation OF 14,176
feet?
II II is the duplicate Of Choir that
tourists seek. Manltou. in this State,
rests at the foot of 14,O00- foot Pixies
Peak for them, and Is itself $500 feet
above the sea, while being endowed
with health-giving waters the equal Of
Carlsbad,
There are 40 mountains In Colorado
whose peaks are over LOO feet above
the ocean level. Forty OF these are
higher than $4,000 feet and more than
half that number are so remote and
rugged that no one has yet dared to at
tempt to climb them. They are as
unique as those of Switzerland and as
fearful as the Alps In the warning they
offer to men and women who are so
hardy as to defy them by starting up.
on their ascent. Some OF them are
massed with snow, others have glaciers
over their approaches, and others are
merely masses of Jagged rocks.
Not even Coloradoans have sought
as yet to surmount them, and the pro-
fession of guide" is still open to who
ever may care to enter It. Railroads
reach within close enough range to pro-
vide hotel facilities, but otherwise the
mountain climbing of Colorado Is yet
awaiting its pioneers, Did the Color
adoans or people OF other States fully
realize the intoxication as well as the
health-glving powers of mountain
climbing, Rocky Mountain climbing
would be one Of the most popular recrc-
ations of America.
Only one mountain climbing club Is
known to exist in Colorado. There is
room for q dozen more. There should
he one in every city. BY the evidences
such clubs might offer of their thrilling
experiences and of their unexampled
pastimes, the fame OF the Rockies as a
place OF pleasure and adventure might
M widely advertised, and Colorado
thus be pushed forward to the place it
must eventually occupy as the Ameri-
can substitute for Standardization
yer Times.