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Absolute bearing
In nautical navigation the absolute bearing is the clockwise angle between north and an object observed from the vessel.
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Aid climbing
Aid climbing is a style of climbing in which standing on or pulling oneself up via devices attached to fixed or placed protection is used to make upward progress.
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Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was an American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.
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Alps
The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.
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Altitude sickness
Altitude sickness, also known as acute mountain sickness (AMS), is a negative health effect of high altitude, caused by acute exposure to low amounts of oxygen at high altitude.
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Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist.
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Bear Lake (Colorado)
Bear Lake is a scenic trailhead and destination in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Beaver
The beaver (genus Castor) is a large, primarily nocturnal, semiaquatic rodent.
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Bob Kamps
Bob Kamps (1931 – 2 March 2005) was an American rock climber whose climbing career spanned five decades.
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Boulder County, Colorado
Boulder County is one of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado of the United States.
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Casual Route
The Casual Route is the easiest technical climbing route up The Diamond of Longs Peak.
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Climbing
Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Crampons
A crampon is a traction device that is attached to footwear to improve mobility on snow and ice during ice climbing.
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D1 (Longs Peak)
The D1 is the original technical climbing route up The Diamond of Longs Peak.
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Dave Rearick
Dave Rearick (born August 5, 1932) is an American rock climber and mathematician.
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Denver Art Museum
The Denver Art Museum — DAM is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado.
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Diamond
Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.
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Eagle
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.
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East Longs Peak Trail – Longs Peak Trail – Keyhole Route – Shelf Trail
The East Longs Peak Trail, Longs Peak Trail and Keyhole Route-Shelf Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park are listed on the National Register of Historic Places for their significance in the early recreational development of the park.
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Elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).
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Elkanah Lamb
Elkanah J. Lamb (1832-1915) was born in Indiana and moved westward through Iowa to Kansas and Nebraska during his early adulthood.
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Estes Park, Colorado
The Town of Estes Park is a statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
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Fifty Classic Climbs of North America
Fifty Classic Climbs Of North America is a climbing guidebook and history written by Steve Roper and Allen Steck.
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Fourteener
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least.
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Free climbing
Free climbing is a form of rock climbing in which the climber may use climbing equipment such as ropes and other means of climbing protection, but only to protect against injury during falls and not to assist progress.
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Front Range
The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado, and southeastern portion of the U.S. State of Wyoming.
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Front Range Urban Corridor
The Front Range Urban Corridor is an oblong region of urban population located along the eastern face of the Southern Rocky Mountains, encompassing 18 counties in the U.S. states of Colorado and Wyoming.
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Great Plains
The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.
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Ice axe
An ice axe is a multi-purpose hiking and climbing tool used by mountaineers both in the ascent and descent of routes that involve frozen conditions with snow and/or ice.
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Ice climbing
Ice climbing is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations.
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John Wesley Powell
John Wesley "Wes" Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions.
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Lightning
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that occurs typically during a thunderstorm.
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List of Colorado county high points
This article includes a sortable table of the 64 counties of the U.S. State of Colorado with their points of highest elevation.
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List of Colorado fourteeners
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet.
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List of mountain peaks of Colorado
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence.
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List of mountain peaks of North America
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence.
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List of mountain peaks of the United States
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence.
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List of the highest major summits of Colorado
The following sortable table comprises the 117 highest mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado with at least of elevation and at least of topographic prominence.
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List of the highest major summits of North America
The following sortable table comprises the 200 highest mountain peaks of greater North AmericaThis article defines greater North America as the portion of the continental landmass of the Americas extending westward and northward from the Isthmus of Panama plus the ocean islands surrounding that landmass.
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List of the highest major summits of the United States
The following sortable table comprises the 200 highest mountain peaks of the United States with at least of topographic prominence.
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Longmont, Colorado
The City of Longmont is a Home Rule Municipality in Boulder and Weld counties of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Longs Peak
Longs Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
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Metres above sea level
Metres above mean sea level (MAMSL) or simply metres above sea level (MASL or m a.s.l.) is a standard metric measurement in metres of the elevation or altitude of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level.
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Mills Glacier
Mills Glacier is an alpine glacier near the base of the east mountain face of Longs Peak, in Rocky Mountain National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Mount Meeker
Mount Meeker is a high mountain summit of the Twin Peaks Massif in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
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Mountain
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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North American Vertical Datum of 1988
The North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) is the vertical control datum of orthometric height established for vertical control surveying in the United States of America based upon the General Adjustment of the North American Datum of 1988.
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Pre-Columbian era
The Pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during the Early Modern period.
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Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park is a United States national park located approximately northwest of Denver International Airport in north-central Colorado, within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
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Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.
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Sea Level Datum of 1929
The Sea Level Datum of 1929 was the vertical control datum established for vertical control surveying in the United States of America by the General Adjustment of 1929.
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Stephen Harriman Long
Stephen Harriman Long (December 30, 1784 – September 4, 1864) was a U.S. army explorer, topographical engineer, and railway engineer.
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Summit
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it.
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The Diamond (Longs Peak)
The Diamond is the sheer and prominent east face of Longs Peak and named for the shape of the cliff.
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The Dove (glacier)
The Dove is a small cirque glacier or perennial snowfield located in Rocky Mountain National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, lightning storm, or thundershower, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
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Topographic prominence
In topography, prominence characterizes the height of a mountain or hill's summit by the vertical distance between it and the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.
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Tree line
The tree line is the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing.
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Twin Sisters Peaks
The Twin Sisters Peaks are mountains in Colorado, located in the Front Range in Larimer County, Colorado, straddling Rocky Mountain National Park and Roosevelt National Forest.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, KP PC (12 February 1841 – 14 June 1926), styled Viscount Adare between 1850 and 1871, was an Anglo-Irish journalist, landowner, entrepreneur, sportsman and Conservative politician.
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Yosemite Decimal System
The Yosemite Decimal System (YDS) is a three-part system used for rating the difficulty of walks, hikes, and climbs, primarily used by mountaineers in the United States and Canada.
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50 State Quarters
The 50 State Quarters Program was the release of a series of circulating commemorative coins by the United States Mint.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longs_Peak
