After 18 years of wondering - of questions whose answers remained frustratingly out of reach - a weather-beaten hiking boot tucked against a boulder in the wilderness south of Vail might finally have solved the mystery of a woman who vanished without a trace.
The woman’s name was Michelle Vanek. She was 35, a wife and mother of four. On Sept. 24, 2005, she and a family friend attempted to summit her first 14er, the rugged and unforgiving Mount of the Holy Cross.
They separated near the summit, and nobody ever saw her again.
The largest search in state history, carried out over eight days by more than 800 volunteers on foot and in the air, failed to unearth a single clue of what happened to her.
Not a footprint.
Not a scrap of clothing.
Not a hiking pole or a piece of her backpack or the wrapper of her last energy bar.
In that void, there was only speculation and suspicion.
Then came the discovery of the boot - the first clue ever discovered to what happened on that brisk fall day.
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23 сен 2023
