False.
Explanation:
- In 1806 Lieutenant Zebulon Pikes and the small group of American soldiers have uncovered the mountain bearing his name
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- Pikes Peak is the most visited mountain in North America (6 million visitors a year), and second in the world after Fuji, a mountain in Japan. The summit is visited by about 500,000 people a year.
- It is a peak in the eastern Rocky Mountains, 15 km west of Colorado Springs. The peak reaches an altitude of 4302 m.
- The mountain is named after the explorer Zebulon Pike, who first started exploring the region in 1806, but because of the blizzard gave up the conquest of the summit (he remained about 1200 m). This was succeeded in 1820 by Edwin James, the doctor and botanist who discovered the flower of Columbine, which became the symbol of the state of Colorado.
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