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 ...

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 ...

14er season isn’t over. ... In fact, Kedrowski has made an annual autumnal ritual of climbing Capitol, a popular but precipitous peak near Aspen. He’s planning a trip there next week.

Jennifer attempts to climb Capitol Peak – the hardest 14er here in Colorado. Capitol Peak is rated as the hardest fourteener in Colorado by 14ers.com. Because of the daunting Knife Edge that you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the deadly summer of 2017 on the high peaks and backcountry of Pitkin County, local officials are determined this summer to make sure people are armed with good information about what they are ...