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A 57-year-old New York man was rescued Saturday morning from the Crestone Needle in southern Colorado after falling about 25 feet while descending the 14,203-foot summit.
it was alerted to the fall on the mountain’s west couloir about 10:30 a.m. Friday. The man who fell, from Rexford, N.Y., had been climbing with his 21-year-old son.
It took rescue crews until Saturday morning before they were able to remove the man from the field and transfer him to a hospital, authorities say.
Custer County Search and Rescue says the man’s helmet is being credited with saving his life.
A 55-year-old Parker man died in July climbing the mountain after .
In September, was also killed while climbing to the mountain’s summit.
