A 41-year-old woman has died after pushing a fellow climber out of the way to save her when a massive ice column from a frozen Utah waterfall split, officials said.
The climber, identified by friends as Meg O’Neill, had been attempting to scale the frozen Raven Falls when a massive ice column split and fell in Indian Canyon Sunday, the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office,
O’Neill managed to push a 21-year-old woman out of the way of falling ice, which officials wrote “probably saved her life.”
But O’Neill wound up crushed beneath “two huge blocks of ice,” resulting in her death.
A 34-year-old man who accompanied the two female climbers was severely injured after falling 40 feet.
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