{"id":1314727,"date":"2019-09-17T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/missing-hiker-found-after-2-nights-near-pyramid-peak\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T03:00:00","slug":"missing-hiker-found-after-2-nights-near-pyramid-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/missing-hiker-found-after-2-nights-near-pyramid-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing hiker found after 2 nights near Pyramid Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neil Brosseau, front, of Denver had been missing on Pyramid Peak since 2 p.m. Sunday. He was found alive walking on a trail just before 4 p.m. Tuesday.<\/strong>
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A Mountain Rescue Aspen team walking out of the backcountry near Pyramid Peak found a missing Denver man alive and in good condition Tuesday afternoon, an official said.<\/p>\n

The team came upon Neil Brosseau, 66, about 3:50 p.m. and recognized him as the man MRA spent more than 48 hours searching for, said Alex Burchetta, director of operations for the Pitkin County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe seems to be doing just fine,\u201d Burchetta said.<\/p>\n

A sheriff\u2019s deputy was en route to pick up Brosseau and transport him to the MRA headquarters on Highway 82 near Aspen\u2019s airport to debrief him, Burchetta said. Details about what happened and how he got lost were not immediately available.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe will be getting a lecture from me. But we\u2019re good.\u201dChris Brosseau,nephew of Neil Brosseau<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

Chris Brosseau, the missing man\u2019s nephew, said Tuesday afternoon he and his family were \u201coverjoyed\u201d that his uncle was found alive and well. He hadn\u2019t yet spoken to his uncle, but said he heard Neil Brosseau spent Sunday night alone then was helped by hunters, who gave him food, Monday night.<\/p>\n

Chris Brosseau said he was hiking with his uncle and his wife Sunday afternoon and was the last person to see him on the saddle at about 13,000 feet that connects the northeast summit ridge to the Pyramid Peak summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was about 300 feet below him screaming my head off and waving my arms,\u201d Chris Brosseau said. \u201cBut he turned away and started walking back up the trail.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he doesn\u2019t know yet what happened but plans to find out.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will be getting a lecture from me,\u201d Chris Brosseau said. \u201cBut we\u2019re good.\u201d<\/p>\n

A medical helicopter out of Grand Junction ferried the MRA searchers to a spot near the amphitheater below Pyramid\u2019s north face about 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, Burchetta said. Officials also used a drone Tuesday to target specific areas of the mountain in the search for Brosseau, Burchetta said.<\/p>\n

Brosseau was first reported missing late Sunday afternoon or early evening, though MRA volunteers did not head into the field until Monday morning, Burchetta said. MRA and the Sheriff\u2019s Office do not undertake nighttime missions unless there\u2019s a confirmed need, such as an injury, he said.<\/p>\n

No one had seen Brosseau, said to be an experienced climber, since about 2 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n

Pyramid Peak is about 12 miles southwest of Aspen. The Pyramid Peak trail on the northeast ridge is about 8 miles round trip from the trailhead at Maroon Lake, according to website 14ers.com. The last 1,000 feet to the summit requires \u201cClass 3 and 4 climbing and careful route-finding,\u201d according to the website, and the \u201cremaining 500 feet to the summit is complex.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voluntary separation among climbing parties is the leading cause of MRA-led searches in the backcountry, Burchetta said.<\/p>\n

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Neil Brosseau, front, of Denver had been missing on Pyramid Peak since 2 p.m. Sunday. He was found alive walking on a trail just before 4 p.m. Tuesday. A Mountain Rescue Aspen team walking out of the backcountry near Pyramid Peak found a missing Denver man alive and in good condition Tuesday afternoon, an official […]<\/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-1314727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 14:25:32","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\/1314727","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=1314727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}