'At the beginning, it’s subtle. It does usually start with acute mountain sickness, where people have the typical symptoms of headache and fatigue and nausea.'
When he tried to put into words what he was feeling, she realized the worsening wet cough he had developed that night wasn’t from a cold or the flu.
Thanks to a dramatic evacuation in the dark that night that involved four men skiing 2 miles down the mountain roped to a toboggan carrying Evan, followed by transport provided by a snowmobile rescue party sent by Mountain Rescue Aspen and an ambulance ride to a hospital in Glenwood Springs, the Boulder third-grader is doing fine.
The first fortuitous factor in Evan’s medical emergency: One of the members of the party, Josh Emdur, is a family practice physician. Evan also was fortunate there were others in the party who knew how to handle a tricky evacuation. Stephen Price has 18 years of experience with Rocky Mountain Rescue Group, a team that performs search-and-rescue operations in Boulder County. Tom Lukas, who also participated in the evacuation, has ski patrol experience.
It was dark and snowing when they left the hut just before 5 a.m. JP went down with the four-man toboggan crew — Emdur, Price, Lukas and Stefan Griebel — who were wearing headlamps.
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