Fear and Loathing at 4,342 metres (Mount Wilson, Colorado - 14,246 feet)

I'm lucky to have made it back alive to upload this video! A great rule-of-thumb is to be heading down off a 14er before noon. In this case I didn't make it to the top of Mount Wilson until 13:00 because I had just climbed Wilson Peak a few kilometres off in the distance. As you can see from the cloud cover small storms were moving in and I got caught just ten minutes after leaving the summit. It started with a light graupel (subminiature hail-like snowflakes) pelting my face that was then ...

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