ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK — Authorities have launched the title of a man who was killed in a rock fall and avalanche that additionally injured two different climbers at Rocky Mountain National Park.
The Boulder County coroner’s workplace identified the sufferer Friday as 25-year-old Christopher Clark, of Land O’ Lakes, Florida.
Two New Mexico climbers had been injured in Sunday’s avalanche. Michael Grieg, 27, of Albuquerque was airlifted by helicopter and hospitalized at Medical Center of the Rockies. Lillian Martinez, 24, of Albuquerque, suffered minor accidents.
A helicopter crew on Tuesday lifted Clark’s physique from the avalanche zone on Mount Meeker, the place rescuers labored in winter circumstances in terrain above 11,500 toes (3,505 meters) at the location close to Dreamweaver Couloir. Climbers in the realm witnessed the slide.
