PITKIN COUNTY, Colo. -- A 68-year-old climber from Conifer is dead after a fall in the Maroon Bells area, deputies said.
The Pitkin County Sheriff's Office said they got an SOS message from a personal locator device at 7:48 p.m. Wednesday.
Deputies said when they found the sender, 30-year-old Wesley Trimble, he told them his climbing partner, 68-year-old Steven Sprowles, took a bad fall and died.
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