Tag: Andrew Hamilton
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New record on all 58 of Colorado’s 14ers claimed
A Colorado couple has claimed a new record across the state’s highest summits. Twelve days after they started in the San Juan Mountains, Andrea Sansone and Andrew Hamilton have reported an unlikely mission accomplished: a straight push through all 58 of the state’s peaks above 14,000 feet. “Unlikely” was indeed how the Golden couple put…
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Colorado couple plans ‘monster’ 14er record attempt
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado mountaineering power couple has announced a bold record pursuit. No strangers to speedy feats across the state’s 14,000-foot peaks, Andrew Hamilton and Andrea Sansone of Golden plan to embark next week on a mission bagging all 58 summits in a fashion never marked…
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A dive into vaunted speed records across Colorado’s outdoors
Joseph DeMoor has a confession to make. He knows it sounds silly, but he likes to see his name listed on the first page of fastestknowntime.com/athletes. There are, at last check, 487 pages you could scroll through — names listed with their number of fastest known times, or FKTs, as the rather obscure records are…
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3 states, 100-plus peaks, no car: One man’s big walk starting in Colorado
One recent morning along 14,000-foot Culebra Peak in southern Colorado, a pair of hikers offered some assistance to another they met. They learned this young man named Jason had been backpacking around without a sleeping pad. “It was like, ‘Oh my goodness, you’ve been sleeping on the ground?’” recalled Mark Reis, who was taking unrelated…
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Almost famous: The Colorado peaks that just missed 14er status
The reaction was different to Andrew Hamilton’s two proud records set in the Colorado mountains. One in 2015 had him summit all 54 of the state’s 14,000-foot peaks in a single push faster than anyone before. Later, in 2021, he called it the Centennial Record: A dash across the state’s 100 highest points. They included…
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A record 72 days climbing Colorado’s 14ers in winter — all to get back to the fun stuff
For Chris Fisher, perhaps the hardest part about doing something really hard in Colorado’s mountains was not doing something else in Colorado’s mountains. “Watching everyone else ski powder every day, that really bummed me out,” he said. “I was slogging through powder, not skiing.” He was slogging his way to a stunning record. Fastest Known…
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Meet the woman behind Colorado’s new 100-mountain record
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On her drive home after another ascent of 14,005-foot Mount of the Holy Cross, Andrea Sansone got a call from her boyfriend, Andrew Hamilton, who said a reporter was looking to interview her. “I was like, Why?” Sansone recalls. “Like, no one ever wants to…