July 3, 1955
Herbert Martin fell 400 feet after he had ascended out of visible range from his party. He was later found with no signs of life, and it is not known whether rockfall contributed to his death.Source: Accidents in North American Mountaineering, 1956
July 26, 1986
Vanna Powell was struck in the face by a rock that was loosed during an ascent of another party. When she was struck, she slid down a snowfield unconscious. She was rescued and later recovered from the accident.Source: sangre-de-cristo.com
September 5, 1995
Scott Ryan had fallen to his death down an icy snowfield from the Ridge between El Diente and Mount Wilson.Source: Rocky Mountain News
July 1, 2001
Douglas Cook was attempting a glissade to avoid a storm, and being able to self-arrest, slid feet first into a rock rib, cracking his ribs and straining sternum cartilage. He was able to hike out under his own power and assistance from his partner, Kevin Craig, who offered thse details: "We were glissading off the summit ridge to the ESE into what eventually becomes the Slate Creek drainage. If you look on the USGS Mt. Wilson Quad, we ended up on the snowfield under the "t" in "Mount Wilson." The plan was to glissade that snowfield (which reached almost all the way up the the summit ridge at that point in time), cross the Wilson-Gladstone saddle, then go back over Rock of Ages. We were trying to get as low as possible as fast as possible due to an approaching storm and the snowfields on the N. side didn't reach as high, go as low, and were steeper/rockier."Source: www.climber.org/TripReports
August 15, 2004
Steven Vasel was descending from the summit ridge when he slipped and fell into a northwest-facing couloir and slid down over 500', impacting rocks at the base. Vasel's partner found him at the base dead from head trauma.Source: Telluride Daily Planet
July 16, 2006
Corbin Lambeth was on the west sdie of Mount Wilson's summit ridge when he slipped on a snowfield and impacted the slope 600' below. He was stabilized by search and resuce and flown out.Source: Telluride Daily Planet
Mount Wilson from Rock of Ages Saddle