Durham Woman Dies In Pilot Mountain Fall

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published August 24, 2021 at 5:18 PM EDT

A woman climbing at Pilot Mountain State Park has fallen to her death. A Surry County Emergency Services spokesperson says the 30-year-old Durham woman was with another person when she fell about 90 feet to the ground.

A ranger was able to make it to the victim within minutes and was soon joined by paramedics, but they weren't able to save her. She died at the scene.

The victim fell from the top of one of the tallest climbing courses on Pilot Mountain, said Katie Hall, a spokeswoman for North Carolina State Parks.

The victim has not been identified.

Her death marks the first fatality in the park since July 2012, when an experienced climber fell about 50 feet and died.

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Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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