We had just worked our way across the sea of rocks that led us to Capitol Peak’s K2, a lump that acted as the gateway to the peak’s justifiable reputation as Colorado’s toughest 14er.I swept across ...

PITKIN COUNTY, Colo. — New details show the 21-year old man who died Saturday on Capitol Peak likely followed the same deadly north face couloir as the Aspen couple who died a week before, the ...

PITKIN COUNTY, Colo. — After five deaths on Capitol Peak in the past two months, experts are warning people considering climbing the 14er of the extreme conditions and urging them to take the ...

Two teenage hikers spent the night stranded on one of Colorado's deadliest peaks after seeking a shortcut down. According to a report from Mountain Rescue Aspen, two 19-year-olds from North Carolina ...

Two 19-year-old hikers from North Carolina were rescued early Wednesday morning after being trapped overnight on Capitol Peak ...

Ranger Karen Schroyer points to Capitol Peak on a map. According to the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, which has been tracking 14er fatalities since 2000, the 10 people who died on 14ers in 2017 ...

A hiker died Sunday trying to summit Capitol Peak, west of Aspen, and is the second person to die on the mountain in less than a month. Pitkin County authorities said another hiker climbing the ...

One climber was killed on Capitol Peak (14,137 feet) outside Aspen, ... White notes that there hasn't been a clear increase in incidents on Capitol in recent years, even as 14er-hiking has boomed ...

Capitol Peak is considered one of the toughest hikes among Colorado’s mountains over 14,000 feet in elevation, but some of its neighbors in Pitkin County remain more deadly. Two hikers have died at ...