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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 938: Climbing Every Colorado 14er in Winter - Chris Fisher

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6580 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We had Chris on the show back in episode 825 when he climbed 400,000 feet of elevation in a single month. 

This episode takes it up a notch on the “crazy” scale as Chris tells us about his recent accomplishment of becoming the second person in history finish the Colorado 14ers in a single calendar winter. On top of that, he broke the previous record by 12 days.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason.

0:26.5

Getting today's episode up a little late again this week. My apologies, I had a lot to do

0:32.5

yesterday and the day before and just was not able to, poor planning on my end is what it comes down to.

0:39.1

But I'm getting it out and, you know, it's worth the wait.

0:42.0

Chris Fisher is an alumni of the show.

0:44.2

He was on back, back on episode 825 when he climbed 400,000 feet of elevation in a single month.

0:53.5

That is absolutely insane. Start doing the math and start

0:57.8

doing, you know, what it takes to climb a few thousand feet on a trail, the physical effort,

1:03.3

and do the math to where it adds up to 400,000 feet. It's insane. Well, today he's topping that

1:10.0

because we are talking about climbing every

1:13.2

Colorado 14er in winter, and there are 58 Colorado 14ers. Those are, by the way, if you're not

1:20.1

from, you know, an area with mountains, as are mountains that are over 14,000 feet. And there's no

1:26.0

mountain over 15,000 feet in Colorado. They all kind of like top out right at that 14,000 feet. And there's no mountain over 15,000 feet in Colorado. They all kind of like top out

1:29.9

right at that 14,000 foot level. So there's like, it's a huge deal to climb them all. There's

1:36.2

48 of them, like I said. Now you go down to 13ers. There's like 600 of those. And there are people

1:41.4

to climb all those as well. But the 14ers doing them all is definitely

1:45.9

like a bucket list item for thousands of people in Colorado and around the country and around

1:50.7

the world chris does all of them in winter in a single winter in a single season and is only

1:59.0

the second person in history that we know of to do that.

2:02.0

And by the way, he got the record by 12 days.

2:05.7

And that includes a trip to Texas in the middle of this trip to sell his truck and swap it out for a van.

2:13.8

And unfortunately, to attend his grandfather's funeral and go back out there and get back on the mountains in these unbelievable conditions.

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