Episode · Aspen · 36 min
How Aspen Was Built
From silver town to billionaire mountain
Overview
How a collapsed Colorado silver-mining town became the most expensive mountain in America. The silver boom and bust, Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke’s vision for a cultural ski town, Friedl Pfeifer and the first lifts on Aspen Mountain, the Hotel Jerome, Prince Bandar’s Hala Ranch and the arrival of billionaire money, and the fight over the Lift One corridor today.
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