A Colorado Army National guard helicopter and rescuers saved two out-of-state 19-year-old hikers from a challenging Colorado mountain peak Wednesday morning after they got stuck overnight.
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DENVER (KDVR) — A Colorado Army National Guard helicopter, a team of volunteers and Pitkin County deputies rescued two out-of-state 19-year-old hikers from a challenging Colorado mountain peak Wednesday morning after they got stuck overnight.
The hikers, both from North Carolina, were on Capitol Peak, a 14,130-foot mountain in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area near Aspen that the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative calls “one of the most difficult and demanding” of Colorado’s highest peaks. Pitkin County dispatch received a 911 call from one of the hikers at about 8:20 p.m. Tuesday, saying they were on the north face of the mountain and had gotten stuck at around 13,000 feet after seeking a shorter route for their descent from the summit, according to a Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office press release.
