Rescue teams retrieved the body of an ice climber from a southern Colorado mountain early Sunday morning, according to Ouray officials.
The climber, who has not been publicly identified, died Saturday in the Precipice Peak area of the West Fork Cimarron River in Hinsdale County, according to a news release from the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team.
Precipice Peak is a more than 13,100-foot mountain in the Uncompahgre Wilderness, about 11 miles northeast of Ouray.
Rescue crews responded to the area early Sunday morning to retrieve the climber’s body, according to Ouray officials.
The joint-agency rescue included the search and rescue team, sheriff’s deputies, coroner’s officials, the Colorado Department of Fire Prevention and Control and the Colorado Search and Rescue Association.
Information about how the climber died and how authorities were alerted to the death was not immediately available Monday.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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