Among the hundreds of free mountains in Colorado to climb, why are there people who are willing to pay $100 to climb one?? Culebra Peak - located in San Luis, Colorado, is a 14,000 foot peak which lies on private land owned by a Texas millionaire by the name of Bobby Hill. Which in 2004 bought the land/ranch for $40 million. He charges each climber wanting to explore the peaks of Culebra $100 per person. Although he himself has not attempted to make it to the top, nor is interested in climbing it. You would think that not very many would pay just to reach this specific peak, but on most weekends, the list can be up to 2,000 hikers. Interviewed climbers say their reasons for willing to pay such an absurd price are because they have never climbed such a pristine mountain in their life. "This is probably the last time in the history of the world that you will find a fourteener so pristine", said former director of the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, a nonprofit that builds sustainable trails on fourteeners. Also, because "there were no braids of social trails strung with the bright-colored beads of other hikers trudging to the top. There was just the grassy mountain face, as ancient-looking and unspoiled as it must have been before the land grant." So my question is would you pay $100 to climb this mountain? A mountain so untouched it looks as if no one has ever step foot on it before. In my opinion I think i would definatly pay to climb it; being able to explore a peak that looks like no other in Colorado. However, I think it is somewhat rediculous how this texan millionaire charges people just to step foot on his "private land". If he doesn't even use the land himself, why purchase such a thing? He was already extremely well off, so why buy this land and then charge people who just want to climb a piece of it $100?
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