The first person to climb Pikes peak was Zebulon pike in 1806. The second person was Edwin James.
Pikes Peak is the easternmost fourteen thousand foot peak in the United States, located 10 miles (16 km) west of the city of Colorado Springs.
Pikes Peak is composed of a characteristic pink granite called Pikes Peak granite. The color is due to a large amount of potassium feldspar. The granite was once magma that crystallized at least 20 miles (32 km) beneath the Earth’s surface, formed by an igneous intrusion during the Precambrian, approximately 1.05 billion years ago, during theGrenville orogeny. Through the process of uplifting, the hardened rock pushed through the Earth’s crust and created a dome-like mountain, covered with less resistant rock. Years of erosion and weathering removed the soil and rock leaving the exposed mountain.
