JACKI LYDEN, host: And now a note about a pioneering adventurer of a different sort, one who reached the highest peaks right here on Earth.</s>JACKI LYDEN, host: Agnes Veille was one of the first women mountain climbers in America. Her name was back in the news this week because some climbers in Colorado have been trying to get a peak named after her. So far, their efforts have been rebuffed. There are only six major mountains that remain unnamed in Colorado, and so competition is fierce.</s>JACKI LYDEN, host: Veille was a bold climber, who in the 1920s was on course to become the first woman to summit all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks. But Veille never reached her goal because in 1925 she met her doom on the top of Longs Peak. She had reached the summit at about 4 a.m. and was beginning her descent when she fell. She survived the fall and asked her climbing partner to go for help. A blizzard came in as she waited, and Agnes Veille froze to death.</s>JACKI LYDEN, host: It would be 10 years before another woman, Mary Cronin, would accomplish Veille's dream. Cronin, by the way, does have a peak named for her. The local Chaffee County Commission believes Veille has been sufficiently honored with the waterfall and shelter that carry her name. But those who carry the torch for Veille had appealed their case to the U.S. Geological Surveys Board on Geographic Names and are awaiting a decision.
Mountain climber Agnes Veille, who died in 1926, climbed almost all of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks. The Colorado Mountain Club wants to name a peak after her, but some local commissioners are resisting on the grounds that a waterfall and a shelter already bear Veille's name.