Hiker dies after plummeting from ridge at St. Mary’s Glacier in Colorado
A man hiking near St. Mary’s Glacier in Clear Creek County, Colorado, died Thursday after falling from a ridge.
A man hiking near St. Mary’s Glacier in Clear Creek County, Colorado, died Thursday after plummeting from a ridge.
The Alpine Rescue Team, a non-profit organization based in Evergreen, was notified around 2:20 p.m. that a man had fallen "a significant distance and was unresponsive," spokesperson Jake Smith said in a phone call Friday.
A roughly 25-member team began searching for the unidentified man. Teams were able to reach the hiker and determined that he had died.
Smith said the man had fallen halfway down a steep slope into a "cliffband" and had to be lowered about 300 feet down to the bottom of the slope. The recovery took about four hours, Smith said.
It's not clear what led to the fall.
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