SILVERTON – Famed Colorado mountaineer Gerry Roach remembers the relief he felt last month when members of the Silverton Medical Rescue team reached him after he fell about 100 feet down a scraggly ro.
Sitting in his room at Mercy Hospital in Durango, Gerry Roach has some advice for other climbers.
“Don’t fall down,” he says with a knowing smile.
Roach, who will soon celebrate his 80th birthday, kno.
A 79-year-old man who fell about 200 feet in the San Juan Mountains was brought to safety Thursday after a complex rescue that involved dozens of volunteers and the use of a Black Hawk helicopter.
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A 24-year-old Durango woman died in a drowning accident Saturday on the upper Animas River south of Silverton.
Silverton Medical Rescue responded to a satellite emergency notification device alert abo.