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. The bodies of Kaden Matsuda, 19, of Ridgway, Colorado, and Jackson Donlon, 20, of Queensbury, New York, were found Wednesday afternoon in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Aspen, the Chaffee County Sheriff s Office said in a statement posted on social media. They left Colorado Mountain College Leadville s campus on Friday, telling family and friends they planned to hike up Ice Mountain, a nearly 14,000-foot (4,270-meter) peak near West Apostle Mountain that requires technical climbing, the sheriff s office said. They were expected back by Sunday, but college staff reported them missing on Monday morning. The sheriff s office said the causes of their deaths were under investigation, but foul play was not suspected. Authorities said they would not offer theories on what m