Article: Carpenter is no longer sky-high for Ascent

Matt Carpenter is one of the world's best skyrunners, a guy who has dominated marathon races (26.2 miles) above 14,000 feet.

His lung capacity is legendary: In 1992, he recorded a VO-2 rating (the maximum amount of oxygen that can be removed from circulating blood and used by the working tissues during a specified period) of 90.2, the highest ever by a runner.

But nothing took his breath away like what happened July 9: his wife, Yvonne, gave birth to daughter Kyla Carpenter.

"It's awesome. It's everything we hoped it would be," said Matt, sitting on a sofa in his Manitou Springs home. "I stare at her for hours."

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