Next winter, the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation will, for the first time, bring a World Cup finals event to this state. From Feb. 22-24, Denver will serve as the sixth and final host of the 2019 UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup circuit. It’s the first time an ice climbing World Cup event has taken place in Colorado since Durango hosted the first World Cup event of the 2017 circuit in December 2016. Bozeman, Montana is the only other American city to host such an event since the circuit’s inception in 2002, as the town kicked-off the world tours in both 2015 and 2016.