A man is fighting for his life after falling 70 feet in a popular climbing canyon in Boulder County, officials said.
It happened Sunday afternoon in Eldorado Canyon State Park, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Sunday night. The 69-year-old man and his climbing partner were on the Chockstone climbing route.
Officials say the man was unconscious after falling, and after bystanders and first responders did CPR, he regained a pulse. Rescuers still had to treat him at the scene and then secure him into a litter before lowering him down steep and loose terrain; a two-hour process. He was then taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital, where he remains, officials said…