BRECKENRIDGE, Colo.—Searchers found the body of hiker at the bottom of a cliff on Quandary Peak on Thursday, a day after he was reported missing.
Ryan Torpey, 31, of Kansas City appears to have died from injuries in a fall, Summit County coroner Joanne Richardson said. She said Torpey was a chef who was vacationing in Breckenridge with family.
The Summit County Rescue Group said Torpey was an experienced hiker who had climbed the 14,265-foot peak before. Rescuers said he left his family’s condo on Wednesday morning and said he was going hiking for a couple of hours.
A search began Wednesday afternoon when Torpey failed to return but crews found no trace of him. On Thursday, two helicopters helped search for Torpey and his body was spotted from the air.
It took rescuers about three hours to set up ropes to pull Torpey’s body to a spot where the helicopter could land.
Rescue teams from Mesa and Garfield counties and helicopters from the Army National Guard’s High Altitude Training Center in Gypsum helped with the search.
Quandary Peak is one of over 50 mountains in Colorado with an altitude of 14,000 feet or higher.
