Overview
- The man fell about 70 feet from the Chockstone Route in Eldorado Canyon State Park on Sunday afternoon, according to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office.
- Emergency dispatchers were alerted just before 2:20 p.m., and arriving crews found the climber unconscious before CPR revived him.
- Eldorado Canyon staff, Boulder County sheriff’s deputies, Rocky Mountain Rescue Group and Mountain View Fire Protection District carried out the technical rescue.
- Responders stabilized the patient, secured him in a litter and spent roughly two hours moving him down steep, loose terrain to an ambulance.
- He was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, and officials said he remained hospitalized Monday with no further updates and no identity released.