This fall, Spanish mountaineer Kilian Jornet climbed 72 summits over 14,000 feet in the contiguous U.S., including 15 in California. He traveled entirely under his own power, running 629 miles and biking 2,568 miles between peaks across Colorado, California and Washington.
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