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Boulder Canyon Climber Dies After Fall
40-Year-Old Airlifted
POSTED: 4:54 pm MDT September 17, 2009
UPDATED: 3:23 pm MDT September 18, 2009
BOULDER, -- A 41-year-old climber from Denver died after falling in Boulder Canyon Thursday morning.A spokeswoman with the Boulder County Sheriff's Office said emergency crews were alerted at 11:30 a.m. of an accident in the canyon. Jeffery John Brown was climbing with a partner on Cob Rock, on the south side of the canyon, when he took a serious fall while being belayed, sheriff's office spokeswoman Sue Cullen said.He was unconscious when rescuers arrived.
Rescuers performed a technical evacuation and Brown was flown out of the canyon on a medical helicopter. He died en route to the hospital.The Rocky Mountain Rescue group is re-climbing the route -- Empor Route on the north face-- to determine what happened. The pair was using rope and technical gear but neither was wearing a helmet, Cullen said.
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