From WaPo:
. On Instagram, she announced her accomplishment: “Women’s Self-Supported 14er Speed Record: 14 days 10 hours,” she wrote.
Ton had already set more than two dozen speed records, including 24 hours of laps around Colorado’s Mount Sanitas and a 99-mile trek in Arizona’s Grand Canyon Crossings, despite stopping several times to cough up blood. She had won an eight-day stage race in the Alps and climbed mountains in high heels. Her “magnum opus” was the 14ers project, and no woman had ever attempted what Ton had in the Colorado high country.
But Ton’s account on Strava, an internet service that tracked her route, showed she had only climbed 57 of the state’s 58 14ers, omitting the southernmost, Culebra Peak. Her accomplishment — and what she chose to initially disclose about it — put Ton, an elite and polarizing trail runner, at the center of a debate about transparency and what constitutes a record. In the hiking and mountaineering community, many questioned Ton’s lack of honesty, a critical virtue of the adventure sports world.
