A 34-year-old woman was killed and a 30-year-old man was injured after slipping on rocks while climbing in Utah's Big Cottonwood Canyon, local reports say.
A hiker in Utah died, and a second one was hospitalized after slipping while rock climbing inA 34-year-old woman, identified as Kaitlyn Brann, fell to her death just after 6 p.m. in the Storm Mountain area, theBrann was hiking with her 30-year-old boyfriend, whose identity was not immediately released, when the pair apparently slipped on the rocks, KTVX-TV reported.
Search and rescue teams searched for the pair with drones and located the hikers near two fallen boulders, according to the outlet.Brann was pronounced dead at the scene while the male hiker was"I’m never going to see her again and that breaks my heart," Brann's brother, Dylan, told the outlet."I don’t know that my mom is ever going to recover from this.
Officials said the melting of the large snowpack that accumulated over the winter can cause rocks and debris to shift easily.
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