The Pony Express was a mail delivery system of the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company of 1849 which in 1850 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.

For example, using what became known as the Siskiyou Trail, Hudson's Bay Company trappers were the first non-natives to explore the southern Cascades in the 1820s and 1830s, establishing trails which passed near Crater Lake, Mount McLoughlin, Medicine Lake Volcano, Mount Shasta, and Lassen Peak.

Steve Powell, owner and president of New England Broadcasting, had the tower for WZPK ( known as " The Peak ") built higher than the other structures on the summit ; it became the highest point east of the Mississippi and north of the Carolinas.

When the existence of a peak in the Soviet Pamir Mountains higher than Lenin Peak was first established in 1928, the mountain was tentatively identified with Garmo Peak ; but as the result of the work of further Soviet expeditions, it became clear by 1932 that they were not the same, and in 1933 the new peak, in the Akademiya Nauk Range, was named Stalin Peak ( Pik Stalina, пик Сталина ), after Joseph Stalin.

The Pikes Peak region was without professional baseball for thirty years until 1988, when the Hawaii Islanders of the PCL relocated to Colorado Springs and became the second incarnation of the Sky Sox.

In 1864, Helen Tanner Brodt became the first woman to reach the summit of Lassen Peak.

As a result, Horton Plains and Peak Wilderness became isolated from other forest and grassland areas.

The Pike's Peak Country became the heart of the extralegal Jefferson Territory on October 24, 1859, and the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861.

Unknown to the priest kings however, Nagash rebuilt his power and constructed a vast citadel that became known as Nagashizzar in the mountain known as Cripple Peak, seeking to take advantage of the huge reserves of warpstone there.

Whaley Bridge became part of the district of High Peak, with a successor parish formed for the area of the urban district.

He has climbed Mount Everest and four of the five 8000 m peaks in Pakistan, including the world ’ s second highest mountain K2 also known as Chogori in 1981, Gasherbrum II 8035m and Broad Peak 8050m in 1982, Gasherbrum I ( Hidden Peak ) 8068m in 1992 and he became the first from Pakistan to have climbed Everest on May 17, 2000 < ref >

The area near Lassen Peak became a haven for new settlers throughout the 1800s.

Humphreys Peak was named in about 1870 for General Andrew A. Humphreys, a U. S. Army officer who was a Union general during the American Civil War, and who later became Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

In 1878, the gang held up two stagecoaches and four trains within twenty-five miles of Dallas and became the object of a manhunt by Pinkerton agents and by a special company of the Texas Rangers headed by Captain Junius Peak.

Fourteen years later, it received the standard of the X Reggimento " Arditi ", and became the 9º Battaglione d ' Assalto Paracadutisti " Col Moschin " (' 9th Parachute Assault Battalion ' " Peak Moschin ".

Her first fitness video, Peak Energy was released in 2002 and became a best seller.

Instead it became part of the High Peak district of the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire.

In 1959, Arlene Pieper became the first woman to enter and complete a marathon in the United States when she finished the Pikes Peak Marathon.

The most famous was a picturesque rock called the Auspicious Cloud-Capped Peak, which became a centerpiece of the garden.

Some long-standing areas of dispute became accessible under the Act — these include Chrome Hill and Parkhouse Hill in the Peak District.

He got a full-time sponsor in Stacker 2 / YJ Stinger / Stamina Rx in 2003, but after losing crew chief Bootie Barker and switching to Chevrolet, he won only one race at Pikes Peak with 4 top-five finishes 12 top-ten finishes and finished 9th in points.

Front Row Motorsports hired Chad Chaffin to run for Rookie of the Year honors and Randy LaJoie, who has been replaced by Chad Blount, to run full-time in its No. 34 and No. 92 teams, then bought Peak Fitness Racing's No. 61, suspending the operations of the No. 92 car.

Mello Yello would replace Peak as sponsor of the # 42 in 1991, and Petty was running eleventh in points when he suffered a broken leg at a crash at Talladega, causing him to miss the next eleven races.

During the lead-up to 2005, Sadler sold his Busch Series team and announced he was selling a large portion of his Cup team to Jeff Stec, owner of Peak Fitness, who would sponsor the new # 66 car.

For 2003, Stacker 2 came on board as sponsor, and he picked up a win at Pikes Peak.

Brent Sherman took over the No. 49 Dodge for BAM Racing with new sponsor Serta Mattresses and State Water Heaters, but was replaced by Kevin Lepage, who had started the season in the Peak Fitness Racing No. 61, which was the No. 66 in 2005.

* 1990 – An earthquake with its epicenter in Afghanistan results in the greatest number of fatalities in a mountaineering accident in High Asian mountains when an avalanche kills 43 climbers in Camp I on Pik Lenina ( Lenin Peak ).

Peak numbers were in the period 1983 – 1990.

Peak Computer, Inc. is a computer maintenance company that organized in 1990.

More commonly called simply the " Manitou Incline ," the Mount Manitou Scenic Incline Railway -- actually a funicular up the side of a peak called Rocky Mountain located adjacent to Mount Manitou -- was operated by the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway until the Incline was closed by a rockslide in 1990.

The tephra deposits that precede the flow and domes may be somewhat older but are constrained to be less than about 1050 years before present ( 1990 ) by the Little Glass Mountain and Lassen Peak data.

Peak District Mines Historical Society Bulletin 11, 1, 1990, pp. 1 – 19

* Peak position: Billboard 200 # 128 on September 22, 1990

* " Deja-vu " ( December 12, 1990 ), Oricon Singles Chart Peak Position: # 2

The Lookouts were an American punk rock band that existed from 1985 to 1990 on Iron Peak, a remote rural mountain community outside of Laytonville, CA.

Prior to 1980, Persoonia micranthera was also present on Coyanerup Peak, but none were found there in 1990, and that population is now believed extinct.

When the construction was finished, the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway took over the cable car as a tourist operation.

As an author Mason wrote The Wind Cannot Read finished during the Burma Campaign and the screenplay for the 1958 film version starring Dirk Bogarde ; The Shadow and the Peak ( filmed as Passionate Summer, ; and The Fever Tree, a story of espionage set in India and Nepal.

The Peak District of Derbyshire has always posed problems for travel, but from 1800 when the Peak Forest Canal was built, an alternative to the long route through the Trent and Mersey Canal was sought, not only for minerals and finished goods to Manchester, but raw cotton for the East Midlands textile industry.

Crockett made 10 Championship Car starts all in the 1954 season with a best finish of 4th in the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb which counted for National Championship points at the time and finished in 11th in the 1954 points championship.

While the railway workers have largely disappeared, at the beginning of the 21st century, there is renewed public interest in rail, and Derbyshire County Council, among others, is keen to reduce traffic congestion on the A6 and in the Peak National Park. When goods traffic finished between Matlock and Rowsley, the line was taken over by the Peak Rail preservation group, who are campaigning for the link to be restored to Buxton.

Overall, Fuller's best finish of 1998 was with Laughlin's racing team at Pikes Peak, where he finished eleventh.

Fuller's best start in 1999 was 5th at Pikes Peak, and he finished 22nd in points.

He had a second-place run at Pikes Peak International Raceway and finished seventh in points.

In 1998 and 1999 Fukuyama competed in two events in the NASCAR Winston West Series, at Pikes Peak International Raceway in 1998, where he finished 19th, and in the first NASCAR points event held outside of North America, at Twin Ring Motegi in 1999, where he finished 15th.