[Psalm 73]

Yikes! I was caught above the tree line on Mount Washington when a thunderstorm rolled in - lightening cracking all over. Just hugged a large bolder and prayed like crazy.

[Mean Daddy]

Cousin went extreme skiing with a couple friends at high altitude and hit his head on some rocks. They had to board him to immobilize him and then take him down several thousand feet for a helicopter rescue. His concussion was so severe he became combative & it jeopardized the rescue operation.

[sevlex]

This time of year in CO, you should be starting back down by noon. Unless you like being zapped by an afternoon storm.

[RightOnTheBorder]

I spent too long at the summit of a 14er in Colorado and had to hustle down the mountain ahead of a storm. I can’t remember experiencing anything so loud as that lightning, it was like multiple cannons firing off right behind me. A hiker about 10 min behind me was blasted off the trail by a lightning strike and another group behind him found the guy because his dog went down to him and started barking.

I got to the trailhead soaked and freezing. About 30 min later the group behind me arrived carrying the guy with a head wound and they relayed what had happened. Guy didn’t remember getting stuck, just waking up in a small ravine with his dog and hearing people calling for him.

Scary stuff.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I have read many stories over the years about people getting struck by lightning and surviving. Those few and their family members all said that those individuals survived but were never the ‘same’ again. The high voltage or current, take your pick, because no one knows the answer, does something to the brain.

[Navy Patriot]

2 New Yorkers struck by lightning while hiking on Colorado peak were saved in record-high state helicopter rescue

New Yorkers?

Send 'em the bill, they can afford to pay it in full.

[rhoda_penmark]

For reference the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team survivors famous for eating their dead were rescued by helicopter at 12,020 feet in the Andes.

[PLMerite]

"...noting that the pair decided to summit the peak during a road trip through the Centennial State."

"I have a cunning plan..."

[dljordan]

Happens every year.

[EnderWiggin1970]

This is why you never summit in the afternoon.

I'm more a hiker than mountain climber, but I've turned back several times from trying to summit a peak simply because I ran out the clock. I had a set turn-around time and I stuck to it.

[Seruzawa]

My wife was painting in our cabin in central Utah. A lightning bolt struck about 1/4 of a mile away. She said a spark flashed to her hand from all large bolt in the ceiling. The bolt was holding joists together and no other metal was within a few feet. Lightning bolts accompany a huge magnetic field collapse that can induce currents a large distance away from the bolt. Nasty stuff.

[Libloather]

...struck by lightning...

That's gotta hurt.

[drSteve78]

“Idiots on the Mountain “, film at 11.