 Motivator: |
People are mistaken who believe the high Rockies are hard to climb. |
| Thesis: |
Climbing Colorado's fourteeners is hardly a rugged experience... |
| Blueprint: |
...most of them take only a day to climb, involve only hiking and simple scrambling, and are conquered by many people every year. |
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People
are mistaken who believe the high Rockies are hard to climb. To the
traveler who has passed through the plains of Kansas and eastern Colorado,
the high Rockies might seem like a beautiful but forbidding wilderness,
approachable by only the toughest mountaineers. It is true that the
53 peaks in the Rockies that soar over 14,000 feet in elevation should
only be attempted by seasoned climbers. However, the peaks under
14,000 feet, the fourteeners, can be easily climbed by the average
person. Actually, climbing Colorado's fourteeners is hardly a rugged
experience because most of them take only a day to climb, involve no more
than hiking and simple scrambling, and are conquered by many people each
year.
