Two teenage hikers from North Carolina were rescued from Capitol Peak early Wednesday morning after becoming stranded on the ...

A Colorado Army National guard helicopter and rescuers saved two out-of-state 19-year-old hikers from a challenging Colorado ...

Two 19-year-old hikers from North Carolina were rescued early Wednesday morning after being trapped overnight on Capitol Peak, one of Colorado’s most dangerous fourteeners.

On Saturday, June 21, at 8:18 a.m., the Pitkin County Regional Emergency Dispatch Center received a report, via a 911-text ...

One climber was killed on Capitol Peak (14,137 feet) outside Aspen, Colorado, last week, while the mountain was the scene of other accidents--Mountain Rescue Aspen was called out to the Capitol ...

Capitol Peak is a mountain in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area approximately 14 miles west of Aspen, Colorado. It is a prominent summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains.

Capitol Peak, about 15 miles west of Aspen, is in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area. Lathrop said the sheriff’s department discourages people who aren’t experienced climbers from ...

Capitol Peak is in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area, about 14 miles west of Aspen. The peak is “one of Colorado’s most difficult mountains to climb with extreme exposure and loose ...

ASPEN – A Colorado woman died in a 900-foot fall while scaling a dangerous peak in the Rocky Mountains near Aspen, the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office said. The woman was hiking solo on Capitol ...

The number of people who hiked and climbed the 14,000-foot peaks in the Elk Mountains surrounding Aspen remained at about 7,000 in 2022, according to the best estimates by the Colorado Fourteeners ...

Capitol Peak is a mountain in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area approximately 14 miles west of Aspen, Colorado. It is a prominent summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains.