Longs Peak Diamond
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Longs Peak Diamond
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On Your Finished Photograph.
Description
The Diamond is the sheer and prominent east face of Colorado's Longs Peak and named for the shape of the cliff. The face has a vertical gain of more than 900 feet all above an elevation of 13,000 feet. It is a world-famous alpine climb.
In 1954 the first proposal made to the National Park Service to climb The Diamond and was met with an official closure, a stance not changed until 1960. The Diamond was first ascended by Dave Rearick and Bob Kamps August 1-3, 1960, by a route that would come to be known simply as D1. This route would later be listed in Allen Steck and Steve Roper's influential book Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. The easiest route on the face, the Casual Route, was first climbed in 1977 and became the most popular route up the wall.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the FAA watermark
Image copyright 2017 Jon Burch Photography.
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February 17th, 2017
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