ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo.—A 70-year-old man from St. Louis, Mo. has died after collapsing while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Another hiker called park authorities to report that the man was unconscious but breathing at around 11 a.m. Thursday. A few minutes later, another visitor called to say the man wasn’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse.
Rangers administered CPR on the unidentified man for almost an hour and a half on the trail, about 1.5 miles from the Glacier Gorge trailhead. They also inserted an airway and gave the man cardiac medicines before pronouncing him dead.
Park spokesman Kyle Paterson said the man had been hiking with his wife.
He’s the second person to die in the park in the past week. On Saturday, a 66-year-old man from Fort Collins died after falling on a steep slope covered with snow.
