Kevin Bacon Performs on 14,110-Foot Pikes Peak

Actor Kevin Bacon hiked the 14,110-foot Pikes Peak (in Colorado Springs, Colorado) to play a concert at the top as part of an event to raise money for a cancer charity.

Bacon and his brother, Michael, climbed Pikes Peak on Saturday with about 95 people as part of a fund raiser for the Love Hope Strength Foundation cancer charity.

The hikers made the event a tribute to Farrah Fawcett, who died Thursday after battling anal cancer.

At the mountaintop, their band, The Bacon Brothers, performed three songs.

The brothers also were playing a concert Saturday night in Denver to raise money for the foundation, which has held fundraising concerts at Machu Picchu in Peru and Mount Everest.

Windows of the World: Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs

Pikes Peak is a mountain in the front range of the Rocky Mountains, 10 miles west of Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was named after Zebulon Pike, an explorer who led an expedition to the southern Colorado area in 1806.

At 14,110 feet, it is one of Colorado's 54 "fourteeners" (a mountain that exceeds 14,000 feet above sea level). Drivers race up the mountain in a famous annual race called the "Pikes Peak International Hill Climb". An upper portion of Pikes Peak has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Visitors to Pikes Peak can reach the "top of the world" summit by either taking a trip up on the Cog train or driving the narrow roads. Of course, you can always hike it!

On a clear day, you can see Pikes Peak from Denver, which is 60 miles Northeast from it, and from locations near the Kansas border.