In an incident eerily similar to climber Joe Simpson's experience documented in the film and book Touching the Void, a hiker recently broke his ankle and spent an entire night crawling through the backcountry for help.
A weekly report from Colorado's Summit County Sheriff's Office detailing incidents between June 10th and 16th states that the man was in the backcountry north of Silverthorne when he fell approximately 30 feet down a snow slope.
