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The police found the identity of the body of a climber from Mount Olympus
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SALT LAKE CITY — The officials have confirmed that search and rescue crews have recovered and removed the body of a climber from Mount Olympus in the foothills of Salt Lake City.
The body was taken off the mountain about 4:30 PM on Saturday. Police confirmed 54-year-old James Roache died after sustaining injuries from a 100 foot fall.
The police confirmed that Roache slipped off a ledge due to snow and fell near the base of the West Slabs while he and a friend were getting ready to do some rock climbing. He “slid a considerable distance before hitting rocks below and dropping into a narrow space between a wall of rock and deep snow which had melted away from the wall,” according to a Facebook post from the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue.
Roache’s friend was taken off the mountain with a helicopter. Life Flight and the Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau assisted in the rescue.
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