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National Geographic Adventurers of the Year

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National Geographic Adventurers of the Year

October 22, 2015 Media, Outdoor Athlete

As a result of finishing our multi-year project to ski the 100 tallest mountains in Colorado, we were nominated as National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year for ski mountaineering.

After a lifetime of skiing and decades of ski mountaineering it was a high honor.

National Geographic Adventurers of the Year for ski mountaineering
Click the image to see the video and writeup on the Nat Geo website.

“ON MAY 23, professional ski mountaineers Chris Davenport and Ted and Christy Mahon stepped off of a sightseeing train and into Colorado’s remote Weminuche Wilderness. Four days later, they would need to make it back to the same spot at a precise time to catch their ride out of the mountains. In the meantime, they would hike two days of trails covered with snow and littered with fallen trees and attempt to climb the steep, snow-covered rock that guards the summit of 13,824-foot Jagged Mountain. Only then could they hope to ski the line they had spotted from the air, one that no one is known to have skied before.

The objective could have warranted an expedition of its own, but when Davenport and the Mahons made their last ski turns back to the base, for them, it signified an appropriate finale to a much larger project: to become the first to climb and ski the Centennial, the hundred tallest mountain peaks in Colorado. From start to finish, the feat took them over two years.

Given Colorado’s pervasive peak-bagging culture, the state’s 14,000-foot peaks get an enormous amount of attention from outdoor enthusiasts. Every year, more than 100,000 people hike a Colorado “fourteener”—the term used to describe these 14,000-foot summits. A long list of people have climbed all 53 of the peaks, but only an elite handful of athletes have climbed and skied the fourteeners. In 2007, Davenport became the first to accomplish the feat in under a year, and the second to do so at all; the following year, Ted became the third, and, in 2010, Christy became the first woman to do so.”

Click here to see the full story on the National Geographic website.

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