Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-10
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING.
Colorado Peaks Taat Mo Man Has
Succeeded in Scaling

Colorado Peaks Taat Mo Man Has
Succeeded in Scaling
The terrible Juugfrau of Switzer-
land is but 200 feet high, yet trav-
clers from all over the world Journey
to lnterlakcn to climb it. or to say
that they have sat in the hotel and
wished that they might climb IT,.
Mount Blanc, in the same delightful
little European republic. is forever
quilted with snow, and for this rca-
son it is one OF the most seductive
features Of travel to the neighbour
hood of Geneva The Chorheafth re-
sort, on the cast side of the Swiss re-
public, is visited by thousands Of in
yalids, because it 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 a journey get out to
Colorado, strap a pair of mountain
boots on to his legs, put a spike on an
ash staff, and attempt to climb Mount
Blanca, in the southern part Of this
state? Mount Blanca is over 14,400
feet high. Or if he does not care to
take the risks of this perilous ascent,
why should he not come up into the
northern part of the state, place his
field glasses in his hands and gaze on
the glacier and the perpetual banks of
snow that cover Mount Hallett? Or
if tourists be possessed with reverence
or of piety, why may not they locate
in central Colorado and fix their eyes
upon the great white cross that in
dents the Mount of the Holy Cross at
an elevation of 14,176 feet?
If it is the duplicate of Choir that
tourists seek, Manitou, in this state,
rests at the foot of II, 000-foot Pixies
peak for them, and is itself 6 300 feet
above the sea, while being endowed
with health-giving waters the equal
of Carlsbad.
There are 10 mountains in Colo
RADIO whose peaks are over 1900 feet
above the ocean level Forty of these
are higher than 1000 feet, and more
than half Of that number are SO re-
mote and rugged that no one has
dared to attempt to climb them. They
are as unique as those of Switzerland,
and as fearful as the Alps in the warn
ing they offer to the men or women
who are so hardy as to defy them by
starting upon their ascent. Some Of
them are massed with snow, others
have glaciers over their approaches,
and others are merel y masses of jagged
rocks.
Not even the Coloradoans have
sought as yet to surmount them, and
the profession of "guide" isstill open to
whoever may care to enterit. Railroads
reach to within close enough range to
provide hotel facilities, but otherwise
the mountain climbing of Colorado
is yet awaiting its pioneers. Did the
Coloradoans or the people of other
states fully realize the intoxication
as well as the health-giving powers
of mountain climbing, Rocky noun
tain climbing would be one of the
most popular recreations Of America
Only one Notwithstanding club
is known to exist in Colorado. There
is room for dozen more There
should be one in every city. The evil
dences such clubs might offer of their
thrilling experiences and of their
unexampled pastimes and adventures
might be widely advertised, and Colo
RADIO thus be pushed forward to the
place it must eventually occupy as
the American substitute for Switzer-
land