Climber plummets hundreds of feet to his death while scaling Colorado peak on NYE with partner

Source: New York Post

An intrepid climber died after he fell hundreds of feet off the side of a famed peak in Colorado on New Year’s Eve — leaving his partner trapped on the edge. The man was scaling Citadel Peak, a 13,300-foot-tall mountain visible from Denver, when he fell from a ridge, the Alpine Rescue Team said in a statement. 3 A man fell hundreds of feet to his death during a climbing expedition at Colorado’s Citadel Peak.