That's not what she said. She said she's climbed every peak above 14K in OK. And so have I.

And so have YOU, come to think of it.

I've done some alpine climbing.

It all depends on the experience of the climbers. I have some friends who make "mid winter" summit attempts, some are strictly summer guys.

Doing a peak in winter just adds a whole other degree of difficulty and gives bragging rights. Kind of like saying you did a century ride on a single speed.

Personally... I'm not a fan. Even some of the "easy" peaks (Timp, Kings, Deseret, Lone Peak, etc...) become extremely technical in the winter.

Oklahoma really does have mountains
 

No surprise they aren't 14k, but I guess you've never seen the Wichita (not KS) Mountains, nor Ouachita Mountains

Oh well, your loss.

http://www.rockclimbing.com/routes/N...hita_Mountains

Hope is fading into oblivion for the two lost climbers. They found a camera (on James?) and the CNN article implies they didn't look good. They still maintain a theory that they could be alive somewhere underneath all that snow.

The cut rope they found isn't promising either.

It all sucks.

We can all say that we've climbed every 14K mountain in Utah as well.