A 73-year-old Longmont man with no history of heart ailments was resuscitated by rangers this morning after he collapsed from an apparent heart attack near Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park.
The man’s name has not been released.
A family member called park rangers at 11:15 a.m. The man had collapsed and lost consciousness about two miles up Flattop Mountain Trail, at 10,875 feet in elevation.
Rangers used a defibrillator and provided the man with an oxygen before a paramedic arrived, according to a spokeswoman for Rocky Mountain National Park, before a nine-person team took him two miles back to the nearest trailhead, she said.
He was taken to Estes Park Medical Center by ambulance, then airlifted to Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland.
