A Beginner’s Guide to Climbing Mount Borah - Idaho has nine peaks topping out over 12,000 feet. Hundreds more teeter between 9,000 and 11,000 feet. Many of these lesser mountains are arguably better climbs, what climbers would call “more aesthetic”. Yet Mount Borah (or simply Borah), by virtue of being Idaho’s highest point, has an undeniable cachet, drawing to it some 3,000 to 5,000 climbers a year hoping to log their name in the summit box.

