Two Students Found Dead in Rockies After Snowstorm — Official Account Comes via Social Media
Authorities say two Colorado college students were found dead after a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains. A sheriff's office statement posted on social media says the bodies were found Wednesday in a basin of West Apostle Mountain.
Authorities said two Colorado college students were found dead after going missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains last weekend.
A heavy snowstorm hit during the trip. Kaden Matsuda, 19, from Ridgway, Colorado, and Jackson Donlon, 20, from New York, were the two students found dead.
The Chaffee County Sheriff's Office said in a statement posted on social media that the bodies were found Wednesday afternoon in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, about 100 miles (160 km) south-east of Aspen.
For many voters, the story is a sobering counterpoint to distant policy talk: two students, a snowstorm, and a mountain basin far from any capital. Critics of officialdom will note that the public account rests on a sheriff's social-media statement, and they will want the record to be complete without speculation.
Original reporting
The Guardian
Two Colorado college students found dead after going missing during hike
Kaden Matsuda and Jackson Donlon were on a trip in Rocky Mountains last weekend when heavy snowstorm hit Two Colorado college students have been found dead after going missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains last weekend when a heavy snowstorm hit, authorities said. The bodies of Kaden Matsuda, 19, of Ridgway, Colorado, and Jackson Donlon, 20, of New York, were found on Wednesday afternoon in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, about 100 miles (160km) south-east of Aspen, the Chaffee county sheriff’s office said in a statement posted on social media. Continue reading...
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2 college students found dead after going missing during Colorado hike
Two Colorado college students have been found dead after going missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains last weekend when a heavy snowstorm hit, authorities said.
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Facts this version was allowed to use
- Authorities said two Colorado college students were found dead after going missing during a hiking trip.
- The students went missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains last weekend.
- A heavy snowstorm hit during the hiking trip.
- Kaden Matsuda was one of the two students found dead.
- Kaden Matsuda was 19 years old.
- Kaden Matsuda was from Ridgway, Colorado.
- Jackson Donlon was one of the two students found dead.
- Jackson Donlon was 20 years old.
- Jackson Donlon was from New York.
- The bodies were found on Wednesday afternoon.
- The bodies were found in a basin of West Apostle Mountain.
- West Apostle Mountain is about 100 miles (160 km) south-east of Aspen.
- The Chaffee County Sheriff's Office said in a statement posted on social media that the bodies were found.
- The hiking trip took place last weekend.
- The bodies were found on Wednesday afternoon.
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