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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.
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Larimer County
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Date:
1916
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Courtesy of Denver Public Library, Western History/Genealogy Department.