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PRESS RELEASE:

This office will have no more information until tomorrow….

On 5/28/08 at 17:10hrs, Summit County Rescue Group was called to the vicinity of Mohawk Lakes for a male who fell an unknown distance. The caller could not identify exactly where they were. Flight For Life crew made contact just before 17:00hrs but the adult male was deceased. Removal will take about three hours. At this point in time this office only knows that we have a deceased mid-20’s male possibly living in Breckenridge. No identification has been made and next of kin will have to be notified once positive identification is made.

Please wait for the written press release from the SCR Group PIO (he isn’t there yet) It is unknown from this office how many people were with the decedent or what activity they were doing.
 

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SUMMIT COUNTY (AP) - Summit County rescuers say an 18-year-old hiker is dead after falling about 100 feet.

Summit County Rescue Group spokesman Joeben Slivka says the man's friends called authorities about the fall Wednesday afternoon. Slivka says it happened in the Mohawk Lakes trail, about ten miles south of Breckenridge.

Spokeswoman Anna DeBattiste says that according to the hiker's two friends, the man was sliding in the snow, lost control and fell off a cliff into a scree field.

His name is not being released until his relatives are notified, but Slivka says he is from Summit County.
 
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