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A 26-year-old girl from Boulder, Colorado, died after falling roughly 500 ft whereas free-solo climbing a ridge within the state’s Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park on Sunday, the park mentioned.
The unidentified girl’s 27-year-old climbing companion referred to as park rangers to report his companion had fallen from Blitzen Ridge on Ypsilon Mountain, the Nationwide Park Service mentioned in a launch Monday.
Free-soloing is a dangerous mountain climbing approach wherein climbers ascend with out ropes, help or security tools – leaving them with out safety in case of a fall.
Search and rescue group members reached the unhurt climbing companion Sunday night time, although his location required them to request the help of the Colorado Air Nationwide Guard, the park mentioned. A helicopter from Buckley Air Power Base was used to hoist the person out.
Early Monday, a search and rescue group hiked the realm above Ypsilon Lake to arrange for a helicopter restoration of the girl’s physique, based on the discharge. The physique was then flown to a different a part of the park after which transferred to a medical expert’s workplace, which is able to decide the reason for demise, the discharge reads.
That is the second reported death in Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park this month. A 25-year-old man died final week after falling and being pulled underwater on the park’s West Creek Falls.
