‘The most aesthetic line’: how Kilian Jornet climbed the 72 highest US mountains in 31 days
The mountain-running legend has just completed States of Elevation, scaling every fourteener in the contiguous US in a single month, powered only by his legsAs I waited for the sun to crest over Colorado’s Front Range, adjacent to the sprawl of Denver–Boulder–Fort Collins, a west wind gusted, sending a shiver down my spine. With temperatures around …