SALIDA, Colo. (AP) — A man left by his group of office coworkers to complete his final push to the summit of a Colorado mountain became disoriented and
SALIDA, Colo. — A man left by his group of office coworkers to complete his final push to the summit of a Colorado mountain became disoriented and fell multiple times during a night on the mountain in freezing rain and high winds.
The man summited around 11:30 a.m. Friday and became disoriented when he turned to descend, finding that belongings left in a boulder field to mark the descent had been picked up, officials said. When his initial descents put him into a scree field, which is an unstable slope composed of rock fragments and other debris, he texted his coworkers who told him he was off course and to climb back up to find the trail.
On Saturday morning as rescuers from nearly a dozen agencies were starting a large search effort, the hiker called 911 and crews were able to locate him in a gully. He told search and rescue officials that he had fallen at least 20 times on the steep slopes during the storm and, after the last fall, was unable to get back up.
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