Never Hike Colorado Until You Know Its Death Toll

Never Hike Colorado Until You Know Its Death Toll Colorado 14ers deaths | most dangerous mountains Colorado | Longs Peak deaths | Maroon Bells deadly | Capitol Peak knife edge | Colorado hiking dangers | fourteeners safety On January 12th, 1925, Agnes Vaille stood on the summit of Longs Peak in the dark. She and her partner had just completed the first winter climb of the frozen east face. On the way down, she slipped. She survived the fall. She didn't survive the wait. One climb. Two deaths. A hundred years later, hikers still walk past the shelter built in her memory and keep climbing anyway. Colorado has 58 fourteeners. Pull up any list of America's must-do hikes and most of them are on it. But the danger is not spread evenly. More than half of all deaths cluster on just six peaks. Most of the other 52 are, statistically, ordinary walk-ups. A small handful of mountains are doing almost all the killing. You'll learn: Why the Maroon Bells have a government warning sign and why someone unbolted it and walked off with it in 2017 The Capitol Peak feature that kills more people than the Knife Edge everyone warned them about Why Colorado ranks third in the country for lightning deaths and the one rule every search and rescue team repeats The 1874 winter that produced Colorado's most infamous true crime case — and the campus dining hall named after it Why 2017 tied for the deadliest year on record and what both sides of the debate actually agree on The thing almost nobody knows until they need it: backcountry search and rescue in Colorado is completely free The mountain never once changed its mind about how it treats mistakes. Chapters: 00:00 – Agnes Vaille and the deadliest fourteener in Colorado 05:00 – Six peaks, half the deaths 09:00 – The sign that calls them the Deadly Bells 14:00 – Why the rock crumbles without warning 18:00 – Capitol Peak: the obstacle that wasn't the Knife Edge 23:00 – Death Gully and the pattern across every deadly peak 27:00 – Colorado's real signature killer: the sky 32:00 – Summit early the rule search and rescue repeats every year 36:00 – Alferd Packer and the winter of 1874 41:00 – What backcountry rescue actually costs you 45:00 – 2017: Colorado's worst season and why it happened 50:00 – The small decision made a little too late #Colorado14ers #ColoradoHiking #LongsPeak #MaroonBells #CapitolPeak #HikingSafety #ColoradoMountains #FourteenerHiking #deadliesthikesinamerica #coloradohikingdeaths #mostdangerousmountains #hikinggonewrong #fourteenersafety #coloradothunderstorms #kniferidgehiking #hikingmistakes #beforeyouhikethis #coloradotraildeaths #14erhiking #hikingwarning #coloradosummit #hikeColorado #trailsafetytips