Bear Lake and Longs Peak
View of Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park with Longs Peak in the distance. In the fall of 1884 the mountaineer Carrie Welton made an ill-fated climb up Longs Peak, dying of injuries and exposure in a snowstorm on her descent.
Place
Larimer County
Date
1916
Copyright Notes
Courtesy of Denver Public Library, Western History/Genealogy Department.