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Pike’s Peak, Where Sports Mix with a Pioneering Spirit

Pike’s Peak, Where Sports Mix with a Pioneering Spirit

America’s mountain keeps them coming and racing for over 100 years

May 15, 2021
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Matt Carpenter, 12-time champion of the Pike's Peak Marathon, making his way down from the 14,115-foot mountain summit.

Ernest Hemingway once said: “There are only 3 sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” What he meant in his own peculiar definition of sport is that if it can’t kill you, then it’s only a …

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