Colorado hiker climbs Mount Elbert in high heels | Photos

A hiker in the US is proving no mountain is too tough, by throwing away her boots and replacing with a pair of heels instead.

An avid mountain hiker in the US looking for a new challenge decided to trade in her boots for high heels to climb some of Colorado’s highest peaks.

Erin Ton, 22, switched to the unconventional hiking footwear last month after climbing 57 of the state’s “fourteeners” – Colorado mountains over 14,000 feet (around 4200m) – since August 2018, The Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

Erin Ton wanted to test herself on the trails.

But she decided to do the hiking a little differently.

“I thought it would be a fun celebration to hike Elbert again, but do it in high heels,” Ms Ton told the paper, referring to Mount Elbert, the first of the fourteeners she hiked years before. “It’s kind of a full-circle thing.”

Since then, Ms Ton, a Cornell University graduate, reached three other peaks in heels, the report said.

And it seems her high-heel climbs attract a lot of attention from other hikers.

Erin Ton and her friend like to hike a little differently.

Hiking is tough at the best of times, let alone wearing a pair of heels.

“It doesn’t help that I’m blond, I’m female, and I’ve been told that I look like I’m 17 or 18,” she told the paper.

Ms Ton said she limits the heel-wearing for the ascent and carries medical supplies for blisters or irritation. And on the way down, she uses her trail shoes.

For those wondering why, she said: “It’s more like, why not?”

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and has been republished with permission