man who climbed all 54 14ers in Colorado recounts tales of danger, beauty

He was withing 50 feet of the summit. With a protruding rock at chest level, he looked up and saw a hand hold that looked "bomb proof." Then, he committed hwat he calls the ultimate sin. He let go withhis left hand as he reached for the "bomb proof" hold to his right.

He fell 100 feet. He wasn't wearing a helmet.

"It was blind dumb lick that I didn't die," said Patrick Renworth, a 55-year-old attorney at law who climbed all 54 14er peaks in Colorado in the span of four months in 1985.

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Photo of Pikes Peak courtesy of 14ers.com.

namaste fellow adventurers