In The Shadow Of The Mountains

In the Shadow of the MountainsEmblematic of rugged individualism, the American West today endures shockingly high suicide rates-a situation one Colorado program aims to addressTelluride, Colorado is a postcard-perfect ski town of some 2,500 residents who have an alarmingly common habit of dying by suicide. It’s a tendency they share with inhabitants of other Western ski areas—Aspen; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Sun Valley, Idaho—and, more broadly, with people in the Mountain West, that vaguely top-hat...