Colorado hiker stuns onlookers while climbing mountains in high heels

NY Post ^ | October 20, 2020 | Kenneth Garger

[SJackson]

An avid Colorado hiker looking for a new challenge traded in her trail shoes for high heels to climb some of the state’s highest peaks.

Erin Ton, 22, switched to the unconventional hiking footwear last month after climbing 57 of the state’s “fourteeners” — Colorado mountains over 14,000 feet — since August 2018, The Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

“I thought it would be a fun celebration to hike Elbert again, but do it in high heels,” Ton told the paper, referring to Mount Elbert, the first of the fourteeners she hiked years before. “It’s kind of a full-circle thing.”

Since then, Ton, a Cornell University graduate, reached three other peaks in heels, the report said.

Ton said her high-heel climbs attract a lot of attention from other hikers.

“It doesn’t help that I’m blond, I’m female, and I’ve been told that I look like I’m 17 or 18,” she told the paper.

Ton said she limits the heel-wearing for the ascent and carries medical supplies for blisters or irritation. On the way down, she uses her trail shoes.

[SJackson]

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[Levy78]

add me plz

[cyclotic]

Seems kind of dump but whatever floats your boat. I’ll stick to my hiking boots or trail runners thanks

[gas_dr]

Mt Elbert is an easy climb, even I have done it — but still 8 miles uphill in heels — what a woman

[metmom]

IOW, she’s just faking it for the publicity.

An attention whore.

[xp38]

I think Melania could do this too

[Larry Lucido]

Looks a bit nipply, er, nippy up there.

[a fool in paradise]

“... and nothing else”

[Repeal The 17th]

[alternatives?]

+1

Look at me.

[TexasM1A]

She must have welded ankles.

[Nifster]

Just plain stupid

[fwdude]

I almost expected this “hiker” to be a man.

[TexasGator]

“IOW, she’s just faking it for the publicity.”

How is she faking it?

[bravo whiskey]

At least it is a woman

[BunnySlippers]

In 6 inch heels....none of this 2.5 inch nonsense!!!

[SJackson]

Borat?

[billorites]

Hmm...

This is both kinky
and relevant to my interests.

[Fungi]

So what? Do it, shut up about it and don't expect some accolades for a publicity stunt. In an age of social media sycophants, humility is rare.