Outdoors

Body of Minnesota man who fell to death recovered from Montana peak

An emergency crew has recovered the body of climber who died on Montana's highest peak.

The Billings Gazette reports a helicopter retrieved a man's body from the south side of Granite Peak Tuesday.

Bad weather delayed the retrieval of the body of a 65-year-old Minnesota man who fell to his death while climbing Granite Peak on Saturday, according to Park County Sheriff Brad Bichler.

The man’s name was being withheld until next of kin could be notified.

Bichler says the man, an experienced climber, fell Saturday while ascending the 12,807-foot-high mountain peak with his son.

Bichler says the victim slipped and fell about 150 feet when he was about 120 feet from the summit.

The sheriff says the climbers approached Granite Peak from the Cooke City side, which he called an "inherently more difficult side to climb from."

The high angle rescue team from the Gallatin County Sheriff's Search and Rescue conducted the evacuation.

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Information from: The Billings Gazette, http://www.billingsgazette.com