Overview

• Authorities say the man slipped while preparing to descend Skyscraper Glacier in Boulder County on Sept. 8 and came to rest in a bergschrund.
• Dispatchers received the call at about 2:25 p.m. as Rocky Mountain Rescue Group volunteers were inserted by helicopter to a ridge above the site.
• Grand County teams accessed the area by ATVs and on foot from Rollins and Corona passes as rescuers traversed roughly 300 feet of glacial snow.
• The patient was treated around 5:45 p.m., then raised with an uphaul system to the top of the snowfield and another 50 feet over an eroding ridge.
• He was flown by Northern Colorado MedEvac to a hospital around 8:10 p.m. with serious injuries, and the multi-agency operation ended at 1 a.m. on Sept. 9; his name has not been released.