Frightening 20-foot-tall figure seen clinging to the side of Colorado mountain

Two hikers were left stunned after encountering a frightening 20-foot-tall figure clinging to the side of a Colorado mountain.

Jessee Clauson, 29, and Camille Avarella, 28, were descending Longs Peak in the Rockies when they unwittingly caught the lanky gray creature on camera as it appeared to scale the crag.

The Denver-based duo didn't see the beast at the time of their trek on August 24 - but noticed it lurking in the backdrop of a photograph as they reminisced about the adventure weeks later.

'I was shocked to the bone when we were looking at the picture,' behavior analyst Clauson told DailyMail.com.

Recalling the hike, she added: 'We didn’t see anything.

'We didn’t take the picture because we saw that thing - we just took it because the mountain range was pretty.’

Clauson said they set off on the intrepid walk at 2am in order to conquer the 14,000-foot crag by dusk the next day.

They had been walking for seven hours when they snapped the figure just after scaling the peak at around 9am, she said.

'We were in full adrenaline mode so we weren’t really paying attention,' Clauson told DailyMail.com.

Graphic designer Avarella explained that it was while they were sharing the photographs with family on a plasma screen TV that they first noticed the creature.

They zoomed in after noticing an odd white coloration on the side of the crag.

'Camille’s dad said, “what the hell, that thing is at least 20 foot or so” and Camille was like, “should we call the rangers?”’ Clauson recalled....<<<Read More>>>...