Meet Your Neighbor - Alannah McTighe

Colorado is home to 637 mountains ranked at over 13,000 feet in elevation. Niwot resident Alannah McTighe has summited over half of them. An avid mountaineer since the early 1980s, she has spent much of her life ascending peaks.

McTighe moved to Greeley, Colorado after graduating from the University of California Berkeley, and was employed as a librarian at the University of Northern Colorado when...