Deadly climbing fall on Telluride’s via ferrata caused by a “misstep”

The San Miguel Sheriff’s Office confirmed Tuesday a woman’s deadly fall while climbing the via ferrata successful Telluride was owed to an “unwitnessed misstep portion the unfortunate was unclipped.”

The Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 telephone Thursday for a study of a pistillate who had fallen an estimated 200 feet. The 53-year-old pistillate from Tuscon, Arizona, was climbing with her person erstwhile she slipped and fell.

The sheriff’s bureau said Tuesday that the probe determined determination were nary hardware failures successful the route’s infrastructure and nary malfunctions successful the victim’s equipment. She was unclipped from the strategy westbound of the “Main Event” erstwhile she fell.

“We erstwhile again connection our sincere condolences to the unfortunate and her family,” the sheriff’s bureau said successful a tweet. “The Via Ferrata is simply a wilderness way that requires acquisition and expertise to navigate safely and should beryllium travelled connected with owed caution.”

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