Crews believe Corkern climbed Kit Carson via the north ridge route on July 9, summiting at around 4 p.m. They say he was to climb down via the Challenger Point summit, but he never returned to his ...

Corkern was reported to have ascended 14,167-foot Kit Carson Peak via the non-standard class four North Ridge route on Saturday, reaching the summit in Saguache County at about 4 p.m.

SAGUACHE COUNTY — Crews found and recovered the body of a hiker on Tuesday, July 12 who reached the summit of a southern Colorado 14er but didn’t make it back down to the trailhead. Luis ...

The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board is not keen to rename the 14,171-foot Kit Carson Mountain in the Sangre de Cristo range after a flat-topped pyramid shape known in geometry as a frustum.

Proposals to replace the name of southern Colorado’s Kit Carson Mountain are coming in, but federal board says debate to change it still needs to happen. By Shanna Lewis · Jan. 29, 2024, 4:00 am.

In this lesson, students learn about the life of Kit Carson, a famous frontiersman from the 1800s. They then sift through a series of statements about Kit Carson to untangle fact and myth.