For decades, Pikes Peak has drawn thrill-seekers, fund-raisers, and publicity hounds. Adventurers have hang-glided and skied off the summit, and rock climbers have taken on its steep faces. Among the more unusual exploits, Julia Archibald Holmes climbed for five days in 1858 to become the first documented white woman to reach the summit after walking much of the way from Kansas to Colorado with the Lawrence gold-seeking party, wearing practical but scandalous bloomers. In 1929, Texan Bill Williams pushed a peanut to the summit with his nose, wearing out 12 pairs of gloves, 3 pairs of shoes, and 150 peanuts over 21 days. On May 29, 1995, Tracy Fisher and friends pushed a 550 pound Steinway piano from Glen Cove to the summit in two hours and 29 minutes, braving mud, wind, and freezing temperatures while raising money for the Colorado Springs Symphony. On September 30, 1995, four students and two administrators from Palmer High School dribbled basketballs and soccer balls up the winding road to the summit in a fund-raiser for new computer equipment for a local school, arriving ten hours after leaving the toll gate.