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WAYNE COUNTY -- Searchers recovered the body of a 70-year-old Colorado Springs man Saturday who fell100 feet while rappelling in Wayne County.
According to Tal Ehlers with the Wayne County Sheriff's Office, the man had been hiking with another man in No Man's Canyon near Hanksville Friday. Family members became concerned when they hadn't heard from the hikers, and search and rescue was called out around 4:30 p.m.
A Utah Highway Patrol helicopter assisted in the search, which was called off late Friday night and resumed Saturday morning. Searchers spotted the two men around 11 a.m. Saturday.
Ehlers says the other hiker -- a 57-year-old man from Tennessee -- was flown to a Moab hospital where he was treated for dehydration. The name of the victim will not be released until the family is notified.
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