1988-1995: The Training and the Test
The mountain’s changing conditions, technical terrain and unpredictable weather make it a far more serious objective than the Lower 48’s other “Fourteeners.” It’s no wonder… Read More »1988-1995: The Training and the Test


![Madaleine Sorkin leads a pitch on her September 7 redpoint of The Honeymoon is over (V 5.13c) on the Diamond of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Sorkin became the first woman and fifth person to send the route, which sits entirely above 13,000 feet and is one of the hardest lines in the world at that altitude. [Photo] Henna Taylor](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/madaleine-sorkin-becomes-first-woman-to-send-th-930x620.jpg)

