Over the last two weeks of July, tenacious 25-year-old mountain runner Erin Ton sprinted to the top of 57 of Colorado’s 14ers, peaks over 14,000 feet tall, in a breathtaking effort intended to smash all previous records. On July 30 in an Instagram post, the Colorado athlete announced that she had succeeded in her goal to set a new women’s self-supported 14er speed record, covering 365 miles and 159,356 feet of elevation gain in 14 days, 10 hours. A most impressive feat indeed.
Except there was one problem – Colorado has 58 peaks over 14,000 feet, not 57. Due in part to logging her progress on Strava, it quickly became apparent to her followers that Ton had skipped over Culebra Peak in the Sangre De Cristo mountain range in southern Colorado.
