Teens Tackle Ice Climbing in Ouray

Wielding an axe and a tenuous grip, Heidi Duce is precariously perched along a 10-story vertical curtain of ice. The 17-year-old high school senior is exactly where she wants to be. As Duce prepares to continue picking her way up the frozen face of the Uncompahgre Gorge, she hears a voice calling out from below, “You climb like a one legged girl!”