Could a horse survive winter alone on the Colorado tundra at 13,000 feet? With a little help, yes.. as proven in February, 1956. That’s when a private pilot flying from Denver to Gunnison was stunned to see a big bay horse stranded on the barren, windswept saddle connecting 14,420 Mount Harvard and 14,196 foot Mount Yale. Mammoth snowfields blocked any descent to milder climes, and it seemed clear the horse would perish without food. Pilots from Gunnison volunteered to drop hay bales from small planes. The Denver Post was the first newspaper to see the story’s potential. Other papers followed, both in American and around the world. One report coined the Elijah for the horse after the Biblical figure kept alive in the desert when God sent ravens to drop morsels of food. Commercial airline pilots flying from Denver to Los Angeles altered their routes slightly to give passengers a glimpse of the famous “Horse in the Sky”.