{"id":38566,"date":"2022-09-04T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T23:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/denver-woman-dies-after-900-foot-fall-while-hiking-capitol-peak\/"},"modified":"2022-09-04T23:43:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T23:43:28","slug":"denver-woman-dies-after-900-foot-fall-while-hiking-capitol-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/denver-woman-dies-after-900-foot-fall-while-hiking-capitol-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver woman dies after 900-foot fall while hiking Capitol Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=556898bb-ddd6-5822-9d64-33e235f0229a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1317\" alt=\"Fresh snow on Capitol Peak seen on Oct. 2, 2021, outside Aspen. (Hugh Carey\/The Colorado Sun)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Fresh snow on Capitol Peak seen on Oct. 2, 2021, outside Aspen. (Hugh Carey\/The Colorado Sun)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Denver woman died Saturday morning after falling roughly 900 feet while making a solo ascent of Capitol Peak near Aspen.<\/p>\n<p>The Pitkin County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the fall happened at about 8 a.m. and was witnessed by another person hiking in the area. The woman fell after a handhold \u2014 a rock she was attempting to grab onto \u2014 gave way, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s body was recovered by a search and rescue team on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Capitol Peak is 14,137-foot mountain in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness. It\u2019s a difficult mountain to climb and other people have died on it before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Peak is 14,137-foot mountain in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[233,28,976],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-38566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-headlines","tag-outdoor-recreation"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38566"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}