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A 55-year-old Chicago man who took a 900-foot tumbling fall while skiing was being treated Wednesday at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland.
Rocky Mountain National Park spokesman Kyle Patterson said rangers received word of the accident about 1 p.m. and reached the victim about 3 p.m. Patterson said rescuers placed the victim on a sled and returned to the trailhead at 6:30 p.m.
Patterson said that the rescue took place at an elevation of about 10,600 feet and that rescuers faced “extremely cold temperatures, high winds and white-out conditions.”
