Air Force Academy Cadets Rose To Challenge Of Rescuing Lost Hikers

Matthew Olsen, a freshman at the Air Force Academy, didn't set out to climb his first fourteener thinking he and his fellow cadets would be heroes. Until he and the seven other cadets and three officers in the USAFA Mountaineering Club stumbled upon two lost, panicking hikers on their way down from the 14,274-foot summit of Torreys Peak in late October during a whiteout in below freezing temperatures. Then, it became the only option. "I went from being the one who needed encouragement ...

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