The Boulder resident’s fatal fall is among several deaths to happen at the national parks across the country.
A 26-year-old woman plummeted 500 feet to her death while free-solo climbing inside a national park in Colorado Sunday, according to officials.
The woman, who was climbing with a 27-year-old man, lost her grip while scaling Four Aces of Blitzen Ridge at the Rocky Mountain National Park, the National Park ServiceThe Boulder resident’s 500-foot fatal fall is among several deaths at national parks across the country recently and the second to occur at Rocky Mountain National Park in the span of a week.
The state’s Air National Guard helicopter from Buckley Air Force Base helped in the recovery of the surviving climber by pulling him up by a winch cable Sunday night after he called for help following the woman’s fall, officials said. Search and rescue members recovered the woman’s body Monday after hiking to the area above Ypsilon Lake where they prepared for a “helicopter long-line recovery,” the park service said.Her body was airlifted to the Upper Beaver Meadows area of the park before it was taken to the Larimer County Medical Examiner’s Office to determine the cause of death.
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