Tommy Hostetler first felt the pull of the mountains when he was 19 years old.
It started with a trip to Denver for a Christian faith conference with his pastor father. Hostetler, who grew up in Georgia, spotted the rocky outline of Pikes Peak from the window where the event was held — and knew he had to climb it.
“He fell in love with that,” Hostetler’s father, Thomas Hostetler, said of his son’s first climbing experience…