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Jane Parnell: First Woman to Climb Colorado's Highest 100 Peaks
Her name might not be familiar to you, but it should be. Jane Parnell is a mountaineer, writer and environmental activist. Inspired by family trips to the Colorado mountains every summer as a kid, Parnell could see her home-state of Kansas from Long's Peak back in the 1970's. Setting roots here in 1968 as one of the few women students at Colorado College, she lived, fittingly on the edge of a mountain in an historic house in Manitou Springs.
Parnell completed climbing Colorado's highest 100 peaks in 1981 in her early 30s but kept on climbing and has bagged upwards of 8-900 more during her…
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