WEST GLACIER, Mont. – A 79-year-old Florida man has died in a fall in Glacier National Park while trying to scramble up an off-trail slope with a group of friends.
Park officials say Monday morning’s incident happened on Rising Wolf Mountain, several hundred feet above a campground. Members of the group descended to the victim’s location and yelled down to the campground for help and called 911.
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A search helicopter transported the unconscious man to a ranger station where he was declared deceased.
Authorities said expert climbers Brian Kennedy of Columbia Falls and Jack Beard of Kalispell died in a fall on Dusty Star Mountain, likely late last week. Their bodies were recovered Monday.