Let’s start with the good news: A man was successfuly rescued from the top of a mountain by emergency crews.
And then here’s the bad: He’d been abandoned there during a hiking retreat with his coworkers.
The Chaffee County Search and Rescue shared on social media that the man was left by his coworkers to “complete his final summit push alone.”
The cause for his abandonment is as yet unknown, but first responders cheekily noted that the decision to leave the man “might cause some awkward encounters at the office in the coming days and weeks.”
The unidentified man was part of a group of 15 people hiking Mount Shavano, a 14,000-foot mountain in the southern Rocky Mountains.
The 15 people were coworkers and on an office retreat, taking the “standard route” to the top of the mountain, search and rescue officials shared. According to AllTrails, that consists of an 11-mile hike, which takes, on average, about nine …