He Threaded His Bike Through A Lock - Then Vanished Into Fog

Survival Stories 24/7 · Jul 22, 2026 · 20m

He Threaded His Bike Through A Lock - Then Vanished Into Fog

Fear of being lost in the mountains tightens the throat: Warren Simmons disappeared after threading his road bike through a padlocked gate and walking into four hundred meters of fog; six days later he was found alive on a flat-topped boulder at 9,000 feet. How did a calibration technician who planned routes by hand miss a four-tenths-mile junction and descend six and a half miles into the wrong drainage?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the closed Coloma Pass connector to the moments that sent searchers…