A hiker was rescued from a mountain in the US state of Colorado after being apparently left behind the previous day by his colleagues during an office retreat.
The unnamed man got lost and found himself without phone signal after being left by colleagues who went ahead without him, the Chaffee County Search and Rescue team said.
He endured stormy weather and multiple falls before being found in a “large search effort” the next morning. He was stabilised and taken to hospital, but there has been no further update on his condition.
Look at all the comments from people who didn’t read the article and automatically assume this headline accurately describes the situation!
He got himself lost despite his coworkers telling him he was going the wrong way.
I read the article and I think you paint just as an inaccurate picture. His colleagues went ahead without him. They friggin left him behind. They told him he was going the wrong way via messaging. It’s not like he insisted they were wrong as they are telling him to his face he was going the wrong way.
The article doesn’t say why they went ahead of him and no one stayed behind, so we can only speculate and hope that that level of carelessness was actually warranted.
Not only did they leave him behind, but they also picked up the markers they brought on the way down. They created the conditions for him to become lost in the first place.
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This is definitely a story of someone who had no idea what they were doing, had no experience with nature, and just didn’t care. He barely survived his own ignorance.
This is definitely a comment from someone who didn’t read the article.
This was an office retreat. It’s the company’s job to make sure everybody is safe. For all we know, this guy didn’t want to be there to begin with.
I read the article, apparently better than you. Idiots separated himself from the group, went the wrong way, and wouldn’t listen to others who warned him. He did this to himself specifically because he’s an idiot. See how that works?
The unnamed man got lost and found himself without phone signal after being left by colleagues who went ahead without him, the Chaffee County Search and Rescue team said.
In their statement, officials said the hiker was left to reach the summit on his own at about 11:30 local time (17:30 GMT).
From another article:
“In what might cause some awkward encounters at the office in the coming days and weeks, one member of their party was left to complete his final summit push alone,” search and rescue officials said.
They left him behind.
In response to him “not listening” about being on the wrong trail:
Shortly after sending them a second message, a strong storm passed through the area, bringing “high winds and freezing rain” and leaving him without a signal.
From the other article:
The abandoned hiker finally reached the correct trail around 3:30 p.m. and texted his coworkers that he was back on course when a strong storm passed through the area with freezing rains and high winds, pushing him back off course and causing him to lose his cell phone signal, search and rescue officials said.
If your group says you’re going the wrong way and to regain the trail you weren’t left behind you got yourself fucking lost…
From another news story covering this: “The man reached the peak of Mount Shavano around 11:30 a.m. but, when he turned to descend the mountain, became disoriented when he found that the group had picked up the belongings being used as trail markers as they hiked down before him, according to search and rescue officials.”
yes. Link posted in the comments. https://www.denverpost.com/2024/08/27/chaffee-county-search-rescue-hiker-coworkers-retreat-injured-mount-shavano/
In their statement, officials said the hiker reached the summit on his own at about 11:30 local time (17:30 GMT), but became “disorientated” on his descent.
His colleagues are said to have told him that he was on the wrong route, and suggested that he regain the trail.
Sounds more like he left them, not that they left him.
