Will Gadd’s Endless Ascent, in which he climbed more than 25,000 feet of ice in 24 hours during the Ouray Ice Festival, raised about $10,000 for the Ridgway-based dZi Foundation; that total was matched by a generous donor to yield a total of $20,000 for dZ’s Revitalize a Village project in eastern Nepal. To see photos from the Endless Ascent, click here.

Boulder-based photographer James Beissel sent us a fun gallery of images from the 15th annual Ouray Ice Festival. Earlier this week, we published Beissel’s gallery of photos from Will Gadd’s 24-hour ice climbing ultra-marathon.

Lake City Ice Festival

The famous Ouray Ice Festival is happening January 7-10 this winter, and it should be a blast, highlighted this year by Will Gadd’s Endless Ascent: 24 hours of non-stop ice climbing. But Ouray is not the only ice climbing festival in the Centennial State:

• January 2-3: Durango Ice Demo

• February 5-7: Redstone Winterfest, sponsored in part by Carbondale-based Rock and Ice magazine.

• February 27: Lake City Ice Fest