After a record-breaking blitz of the Sierra Nevada’s 14ers, mountaineer and trail ultramarathoner Kilian Jornet has two peaks left on his epic quest.
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Jornet’s adventure, dubbed States of Elevation, involves climbing all the 14,000-foot peaks in the Lower 48 and traveling between them by foot and bicycle. He climbed 56 Colorado mountains in 16 days this month, then bicycled nearly 900 miles to the Eastern Sierra to take on California’s highest.
In three days starting on Sept. 24, he hit the summits of “Norman’s 13,” setting what is expected to be confirmed as the fastest known time for a supported trek of the high-altitude route. After a night in a Bishop motel, he bicycled across the Owens River Valley and climbed White Mountain on Sept. 27.
Remaining are Mount Shasta