Chris Weidner: Remembering Peter Lev — icon of American mountaineering

Chris Weidner: Remembering Peter Lev — icon of American mountaineering

“There are two kinds of climbers,” esteemed alpinist Conrad Anker once said. “Those who climb because their heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest.” Peter Lev — a lifelong climber, mountain guide, first ascensionist, avalanche forecaster, grandfather, CU graduate and much more — was unquestionably that first kind of climber.