Love Story | Kim Hess | UCHealth

Kim Hess, from Steamboat Springs, had sustained a hand and wrist break on her descent from the summit of Denali (elevation 20,310 feet) in Alaska. Dr. Michael Gordon, a hand surgeon at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, was contemplating what promised to be a complicated surgery to repair three broken bones when Hess made a startling statement. Gordon needed to make her hand perfect, she said. She was going to climb Mount Everest next year.