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Get Ready To Elevate Yourself to New Heights!
The 2025 Mountain Challenge:
The 2025 Mountain Challenge:
Mt Belford (BELF), Mt Oxford (OX)
Mt Belford (BELF), Mt Oxford (OX)
July 16-19, 2025
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This Year's Elevated Journey
This Year's Elevated Journey
To help you elevate your life from its current level to a higher level, join The Climb Team!
To help you elevate your life from its current level to a higher level, join The Climb Team!
Workshops
Workshops
Before we even get to Colorado, you'll participate in seven game-changing workshops to help you elevate your leadership, elevate your health, and elevate your capacity. The pre-climb prep gives you 12 weeks of growth and accountability. Three more face-to-face workshops await you when we all get to Colorado. You'll get everything you need for a transformational growth experience this Summer!
Before we even get to Colorado, you'll participate in seven game-changing workshops to help you elevate your leadership, elevate your health, and elevate your capacity. The pre-climb prep gives you 12 weeks of growth and accountability. Three more face-to-face workshops await you when we all get to Colorado. You'll get everything you need for a transformational growth experience this Summer!
How Big is The Climb?
How Big is The Climb?
The Climb is a commitment to take on a big, capacity-stretching, physical challenge. "BELFOX" is short for two mountain peaks -- Mt Belford, and Mt Oxford -- both of them over 14,000 feet in elevation. Bagging both peaks is around 13 miles round-trip. We will do it in one day... starting in the pre-dawn starlight, and finishing near dusk. It will be quite an adventure! The Climb Leader, Chris Spear, will help all participants prepare for the physical and mental challenges of The Climb. You can do this!
The Climb is a commitment to take on a big, capacity-stretching, physical challenge. "BELFOX" is short for two mountain peaks -- Mt Belford, and Mt Oxford -- both of them over 14,000 feet in elevation. Bagging both peaks is around 13 miles round-trip. We will do it in one day... starting in the pre-dawn starlight, and finishing near dusk. It will be quite an adventure! The Climb Leader, Chris Spear, will help all participants prepare for the physical and mental challenges of The Climb. You can do this!
Personal Growth and Health Excursions
Personal Growth and Health Excursions
And again this year, we are thrilled to announce that you have the option to take individual "excursions" with one, or both, of our world-class specialty coaches, Susan Spear, MS Nutrition, and Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. , Organizational Behavior. These excursions are a great way to optimize your journey to achieve a truly transformational outcome.
And again this year, we are thrilled to announce that you have the option to take individual "excursions" with one, or both, of our world-class specialty coaches, Susan Spear, MS Nutrition, and Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. , Organizational Behavior. These excursions are a great way to optimize your journey to achieve a truly transformational outcome.
Scroll down to learn more about the option to work one-on-one with these guides. Experience the customized attention that will help you further elevate your metabolic health and leadership mindset.
Scroll down to learn more about the option to work one-on-one with these guides. Experience the customized attention that will help you further elevate your metabolic health and leadership mindset.
Get Ready to Celebrate Your Personal Elevation Gains!
Get Ready to Celebrate Your Personal Elevation Gains!
What Participants Say About The Climb...
What Participants Say About The Climb...
Where We'll Be Staying
Where We'll Be Staying
Experience the Elegance of Whitewater Estate
Nestled in the heart of Buena Vista’s South Main neighborhood, Whitewater Estate is where comfort, adventure, and inspiration come together. With breathtaking views of the Collegiate Peaks, this will be our home base for The Climb 2025—a place to rest, recharge, and connect before and after the challenge.
Just steps from the Arkansas River, you can take a morning walk along the water, explore local trails, or stop into one of South Main’s boutique shops and cafés. Whether it’s a quiet coffee before the day begins or a celebratory dinner after a long hike, everything is right here.
The estate itself is stunning—a spacious 5-bedroom main house and a 1-bedroom guesthouse, designed to accommodate up to 24 guests. With cozy living spaces, chef-inspired kitchens, and inviting common areas, it’s the perfect setting for both solitude and shared moments with fellow climbers.
Evenings here are something special. A soak in the hot tub, fireside conversations under the stars, the kind of deep, spontaneous talks that happen when you’re doing something big. This isn’t just a place to stay—it’s where the transformation begins.
This is Whitewater Estate—where we prepare, reflect, and celebrate every step of The Climb 2025.
Here's What You Get
Here's What You Get
Facilitated transformation— Seven pre-climb Zoom sessions with your program guides and your leadership peers. Learn deeply. Improve your mindset, nutrition, fitness, and gear prep. Join us to experience a change that will alter your path.
Three facilitated team workshops when we're all face-to-face in Colorado.
A leather-bound “field guide” to document insights, strategies, and personal reflections throughout your journey.
Three nights of elegant accommodations at Whitewater Estate, offering a spacious 5-bedroom main house and a 1-bedroom guesthouse with modern amenities.
Spontaneous fireside conversations under the Colorado night sky.
Chef-prepared meals curated by a professional nutritionist to fuel your journey.
A setting designed for transformation—Whether you’re pushing your limits on the trail or reflecting in the hot tub after a long day, Whitewater Estate is where growth happens.
Prepare for a bigger, better, elevated experience.
Your Guides
Your Guides
All of us will be there as you prepare for The Climb... and we'll all be with you in Colorado!
Susan Spear
Susan Spear
Nutrition Guide
Nutrition Coach, Author and University professor. Susan Spear, MS Nutrition is the author of "Mission Nutrition - Calories Matter But They Don't Count." Her book provides insight on her own health journey and invites you to take yours. She is the founder of Nutritious Insight, a nutrition clinic, where she consults with patients from all over the world. Susan helps people overcome chronic health challenges and optimize their physical wellbeing. She is a scientist and loves to share the latest research to help you understand how to optimize the way your body works to support your exciting life!
Chris Spear
Chris Spear
The Climb Leader
Life-long entrepreneur and business coach. Chris grew up at the foot of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs and has loved the Colorado mountains for as long as he can remember. Chris is an experienced endurance athlete -- completing multiple double-century (200 miles +) single day cycling events, climbing a growing list of Colorado's 14ers, and working part time as a group fitness instructor. Chris works with leaders of entrepreneurial companies. He knows what it means to stretch for big business and fitness goals. He's ready to help you expand your capacity and do bigger and better things!
Ryan Gottfredson
Ryan Gottfredson
Personal Development Guide
Cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of “Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership” and, the author of "The Elevated Leader: Level Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development." His research has been cited over 2,500 times since 2015 and he's ready to help you level-up your mindset
Get To Know Your Guides
Get To Know Your Guides
Nutrition & Vertical
Development Excursions
Nutrition & Vertical
Development Excursions
Susan Spear
Nutrition and Metabolic Health Excursion
Nutrition and Metabolic Health Excursion
Susan will guide you to a deeper understanding of your true health. It’s more than a number on a scale! Get personalized actionable steps on how to eat to empower your health and performance – both for The Climb and for your life. Susan says, “You can’t supplement your way out of a bad diet!”
Includes:
Detailed Bloodwork Panels for things your doctor seldom tests
1 hour one-on-one consult and development of your Custom Plan
1 hour Group Call with Q&A
One Excursion included - Do both for additional $499 (Optional)
Ryan Gottfredson
Vertical Development Excursion
Vertical Development Excursion
Ryan will guide you on an introspective deep dive designed to help you more fully awaken to, and rise above, limiting self beliefs and doubts. Discover what may be holding you back from being your best self. To get to the positive impact you want, Ryan will help you create a personal Vertical Development Plan custom designed to elevate yourself, and your impact, to new heights.
Includes:
90-minute 1x1 Vertical Development Coaching Exercise
1 hour 1x1 development of a Custom Vertical Development Plan
One Excursion included - Do both for additional $499 (Optional)
Program Schedule & Fees
Program Schedule & Fees
Required Team Zoom Sessions
Required Team Zoom Sessions
- April 14 (Meet & Greet)
Program 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. (MST) - April 28 (Fitness & Nutrition Framework)
Program 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. (MST) - May 12 (Vertical Development Framework)
Program 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. (MST) - May 26 (Fitness & Nutrition Check-In)
Program 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. (MST) - June 9 (Mindset Framework)
Program 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. (MST) - June 23 (Team Check-In)
Program 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. (MST) - July 7 (Final Check-In)
Program 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. (MST)
The Climb Colorado Event
The Climb Colorado Event
July 16th
July 16th
Travel to the Whitewater Estate in Buena Vista Colorado
Team Welcome Dinner
1-Hour Workshop
July 17th
July 17th
1-Hour Workshop #1
Acclimatization Hike
1-Hour Workshop #2
July 18th
The Climb - pre-dawn start
Climb - Mt Belford (BELF) and Mt Oxford (OX) "BELFOX"
16+ miles... finish near dusk
Delicious recovery dinner
Relax in the Hot Springs
July 19th
July 19th
Final Thoughts / Workshop until noon
Travel ( book flights after 4pm)
Your Commitment
Your Commitment
Time
Seven pre-climb zoom sessions
Physical readiness preparation
Show up ready to learn and grow!
Investment
Core Program - $3499
Investment
Core Program - $3499
Includes your choice of personalized Vertical Development or Nutrition Excursion
Add the other excursion for $499
Core and both excursions - $3999
Team positions are capped at 12.
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Mt Belford, Mt Oxford
Mt Belford, Mt Oxford
On the Continental Divide
Whitewater Estate in Buena Vista
Whitewater Estate in Buena Vista
Near Buena Vista River Park
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