Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In the middle of a chilly October night in 2025, my two friends and I suited up at the Cottonwood Creek trailhead and started a trek into the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Colorado.

Five spectacular 14,000-foot peaks in Southern Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo mountains are also perilous. Known as the Crestone group, these peaks regularly claim the lives of climbers and hikers and ...