In July 2013, Geraldine Largay got lost in the Appalachian mountains. She veered off trail and began texting her husband for help. Her texts read: “in somm trouble,” she texted on July 22, 2013, the day she left the trail. “Got off trail to go to br. now lost. can you call AMC to c if a trail maintainer can help me. somewhere north of woods road.” A day later, she again pleaded for help: “lost since yesterday. off trail 3 or 4 miles. call police for what to do pls.” However, the texts to her husband warning that she’d become lost were never actually delivered. After she missed a rendezvous with her husband, he reported her missing on July 24, 2013. A large search effort was launched but Geraldine wasn’t found. Her body was found over two years later on October 14th, 2015, less than 3,000 feet from the Appalachian Trail. Her journal revealed she had survived for 26 days. One of her final entries, dated 6 August 2013 read: “When you find my body, please call my husband George and daughter Kerry.”
@Morbidful This is really sad and I don’t mean to be a jerk but how the heck do you get lost going a bit off trail for the bathroom? You can easily tell which way you came from.
@Morbidful 26 days and no one found her? That’s pathetic
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@Morbidful She was only 3000 ft? Didn't she have a compass and map?
Rich Moore and his white Jack Russell, Finney, had set out for a hike on August 19 to Blackhead Peak, located in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The missing man's body was discovered by a local hunter on October 30 in the Lower Blanco drainage basin. The hiking route to Blackhead's 12,500-foot summit is approximately three miles with an elevation gain of 2,500 feet. The road to the peak is described as 'rough, rocky, and steep, but the last stretch is an unmaintained' social trail, The Mercury News reported. The day after Moore's body was found, members from the Archuleta County Sheriff's Office and search and rescue were flown into the area to recover the victim. Moore's loyal dog, who miraculously survived, was transported to a local veterinary hospital, and was later reunited with her family. Moore's cause of death has not been disclosed, but authorities said that foul play was not suspected.
In August 1986, British climber Alan Rouse attempted to climb K2’s difficult north-west ridge, instead of the conventional Abruzzi ridge. After several unsuccessful attempts his team decided to turn back. Rouse however, wanted success and joined up with various other climbers on the conventional route including Austrians Alfred Imitzer, Willi Bauer, Hannes Wieser and Kurt Diemberger, Polish woman Dobroslawa Miodowicz-Wolf and Brit Julie Tullis in an attempt to reach the top. On their descent from the summit, Imitzer, Bauer and Rouse found Miodowicz-Wolf asleep in the snow and persuaded her to descend with them. They could not however deter Diemberger and Tullis from continuing up, and the pair reached the summit at 7pm. But on the way down, Tullis fell and they were forced to bivvy out in the open. By the time all climbers reached Camp IV there was a storm blowing and they decided to wait it out, with no food or gas to melt snow. On the night of 6 August, Tullis died from high altitude pulmonary edema (fluid on the lungs as a result of the altitude). The rest of the team needed to move sharpish in order to survive and left on 10 August at the first sign of a break in the storm. Rouse was in severe pain whenever he was conscious and was left behind in a tent to die. Imitzer and Wieser also collapsed and died not far from camp. With just Bauer, Miodowicz-Wolf and Diemberger left, Miodowicz-Wolf passed out on a fixed rope section and fell to her death. Diemberger and Bauer were the only two that survived, with hands and feet ravaged by frostbite.