A hiker was rescued from a mountain in the US state of Colorado after being apparently left behind the previous day by his colleagues during an office retreat.
The unnamed man got lost and found himself without phone signal after being left by colleagues who went ahead without him, the Chaffee County Search and Rescue team said.
He endured stormy weather and multiple falls before being found in a “large search effort” the next morning. He was stabilised and taken to hospital, but there has been no further update on his condition.
The officials suggested the incident “might cause some awkward encounters at the office in the coming days and weeks”.
To say the least. Nothing builds teams like leaving a man behind to die.
They might as well confiscate his Swingline while they’re at it.
Sounds like they fixed the glitch.
In their statement, officials said the hiker reached the summit on his own at about 11:30 local time (17:30 GMT), but became “disorientated” on his descent.
His colleagues are said to have told him that he was on the wrong route, and suggested that he regain the trail.
Sounds more like he left them, not that they left him.
If your group says you’re going the wrong way and to regain the trail you weren’t left behind you got yourself fucking lost…
From another news story covering this: “The man reached the peak of Mount Shavano around 11:30 a.m. but, when he turned to descend the mountain, became disoriented when he found that the group had picked up the belongings being used as trail markers as they hiked down before him, according to search and rescue officials.”
When pack it out goes wrong…
Like, from this article? That the guy you replied to didn’t read?
yes. Link posted in the comments. https://www.denverpost.com/2024/08/27/chaffee-county-search-rescue-hiker-coworkers-retreat-injured-mount-shavano/
His group failed him. If someone needs to stop for a rest someone else should have stayed with him.
“this retreat is mandatory. it helps build trust”
You cook fish in the office microwave one time…
Look at all the comments from people who didn’t read the article and automatically assume this headline accurately describes the situation!
He got himself lost despite his coworkers telling him he was going the wrong way.
I read the article and I think you paint just as an inaccurate picture. His colleagues went ahead without him. They friggin left him behind. They told him he was going the wrong way via messaging. It’s not like he insisted they were wrong as they are telling him to his face he was going the wrong way.
The article doesn’t say why they went ahead of him and no one stayed behind, so we can only speculate and hope that that level of carelessness was actually warranted.
Not only did they leave him behind, but they also picked up the markers they brought on the way down. They created the conditions for him to become lost in the first place.
Yeah, I didn’t understand that party of the article.
Monday gonna be aaaaawkward. “Oh hey, Bob… surprised to see you…” knowing glance at coworkers
We’re a family here! I don’t know where these trust issues of yours come from…
I don’t know, my first thought was a rewards trip I went on where I could hear the salesman on the balcony next to me talking about all the cocaine he’d been doing.
He stopped for a break. His colleagues went ahead without him(why? Why would you leave someone behind?) He got disoriented. Drops a pin for help (aka asks for help). They tell him to hike back up then come down on the right trail.
Why he didn’t we don’t know. His colleagues didn’t call for a search party. They didn’t go after him. He had to try to get enough signal to do that himself. Where were they at?
If your colleague isn’t showing up in a reasonable amount of time wouldn’t you call someone to help look for him?
Yeah he’ll be pissed and probably look for a new job.
There better be a raise involved at minimum.
Yeah a raise in the form of a lawsuit payout
I bet you his boss called the next day asking why his hospital stay is preventing him from coming to work while telling him to be a team player
This is definitely a story of someone who had no idea what they were doing, had no experience with nature, and just didn’t care. He barely survived his own ignorance.
This is definitely a comment from someone who didn’t read the article.
This was an office retreat. It’s the company’s job to make sure everybody is safe. For all we know, this guy didn’t want to be there to begin with.
I read the article, apparently better than you. Idiots separated himself from the group, went the wrong way, and wouldn’t listen to others who warned him. He did this to himself specifically because he’s an idiot. See how that works?
Don’t project your own life onto a random internet article.
That’s…Not what the article said.
Concerned, he sent a pin drop to colleagues, who are said to have told him that he was on the wrong route, and suggested that climb back up to regain the trail.
He went off on his own the wrong way.
In their statement, officials said the hiker was left to reach the summit on his own
It implies that they left him.
Also, it says that they appeared to have removed the trail markers.
It also does not say that he ignored the advice you quoted.
It’s weird how oppositional you’re being. Do you think these events happened in a vacuum?
Here’s what went down:
The group went out. Dude went up until hill by himself. Dude got lost. Dude is an adult and responsible for his own actions. The group returned home as originally planned.
Wrong. They were in a group. Then he needed to stop. They left him on his own to make the summit. Someone should have stayed with him. They failed him.
Whoa, were you there?
The unnamed man got lost and found himself without phone signal after being left by colleagues who went ahead without him, the Chaffee County Search and Rescue team said.
In their statement, officials said the hiker was left to reach the summit on his own at about 11:30 local time (17:30 GMT).
From another article:
“In what might cause some awkward encounters at the office in the coming days and weeks, one member of their party was left to complete his final summit push alone,” search and rescue officials said.
They left him behind.
In response to him “not listening” about being on the wrong trail:
Shortly after sending them a second message, a strong storm passed through the area, bringing “high winds and freezing rain” and leaving him without a signal.
From the other article:
The abandoned hiker finally reached the correct trail around 3:30 p.m. and texted his coworkers that he was back on course when a strong storm passed through the area with freezing rains and high winds, pushing him back off course and causing him to lose his cell phone signal, search and rescue officials said.
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Gotta love team building exercises.
