English adventurer and writer Isabella Bird’s legacy is being kept alive as mountaineers climb Longs Peak in commemoration of Bird’s ascent 150 years ago. On Thursday, a party of eight climbed the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ESTES PARK, Colo. (KDVR) — Officials with ...

Back in 1954, Boulder’s Dale Johnson must have seemed like a madman. He was the first to seek permission from the National Park Service (NPS) to climb the Diamond — a 900-foot plaque of vertical ...

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The site of a recent high-altitude rescue, The Diamond on Longs Peak is one of the nation's most dramatic mountain faces The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, ...

They call it “the Diamond”—a 1,000-ft. slab of granite that slants out from the mountainside like a giant teetering tombstone, and guards the eastern approach to Longs Peak, a 14,256-ft. tower in the ...