{"id":1312659,"date":"2019-07-21T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/injured-hiker-airlifted-off-cathedral-peak-after-fall-ankle-injury\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T03:08:00","slug":"injured-hiker-airlifted-off-cathedral-peak-after-fall-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/injured-hiker-airlifted-off-cathedral-peak-after-fall-ankle-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured hiker airlifted off Cathedral Peak after fall, ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A Denver man injured his ankle Sunday in a snowfield below Cathedral Peak\u2019s summit and was helicoptered out of the backcountry to Aspen Valley Hospital, according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The 47-year-old man was climbing with a woman and lost his footing about 700 feet south of the peak\u2019s summit and tumbled about 150 feet in a snowfield, according to the statement and Pitkin County Deputy Bruce Benjamin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Emergency dispatchers received a signal from a \u201cSpot Device\u201d emergency beacon at 7:45 a.m., and volunteers from Mountain Rescue Aspen headed into the field not long after, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A medical helicopter based in Frisco flew over the location of the signal, located the two people at 13,200 feet on the east face of Cathedral Peak and confirmed that one person was injured. Cathedral Peak (13,950 feet) is about 11 miles southwest of Aspen in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">MRA personnel reached the climbers at 11:38 a.m., and the medical helicopter was able to transport him to the hospital not long after. The man also sustained cuts and bruises during the fall, the statement read.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/local\/injured-hiker-airlifted-off-cathedral-peak-after-fall-ankle-injury\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Denver man injured his ankle Sunday in a snowfield below Cathedral Peak\u2019s summit and was helicoptered out of the backcountry to Aspen Valley Hospital, according to a statement. The 47-year-old man was climbing with a woman and lost his footing about 700 feet south of the peak\u2019s summit and tumbled about 150 feet in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 02:46:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}