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当局称，上周末一名男子在华盛顿州索克山徒步时坠落至少800英尺身亡，而就在一天前，另一名徒步者在同一山脉被发现死亡。
据斯卡吉特县警长办公室消息，来自奥林匹亚的66岁男子加里·艾德尔伯格（Gary Idleburg）在一处弯道步道边缘失足后，坠落距离可能高达1000英尺。报告艾德尔伯格坠落的目击者向警长办公室表示，事故发生在当地时间周六下午3点30分左右。
该办公室表示，山上的其他徒步者最初发现了艾德尔伯格，并引导应急救援人员抵达现场。尽管救援人员到场后试图施救，但他当场被宣布死亡。警长称，由于艾德尔伯格坠落在一处地形复杂的偏远区域，回收工作直到当晚8点左右才完成。
艾德尔伯格的死亡距离另一名徒步者在同一山脉被发现死亡仅一天。警长办公室周六通报称，78岁的彼得·卡拉帕卡（Peter Kalapaca）于周五晚间在索克山步道的一处陡峭路段被发现失去意识。
卡拉帕卡周四被报在山上失踪后，直升机机组人员找到了他，并确认其已死亡。警长表示，他的遗体在地面搜救人员无法抵达的区域被发现，但最终通过另一架直升机将其遗骸回收。
警长办公室在一份声明中向卡拉帕卡的家属表示慰问。
声明称：“尽管任何事情都无法减轻失去亲人的痛苦，但我们感谢所有参与人员付出的非凡努力，这让家属能够得到一定程度的慰藉。”
据华盛顿步道协会介绍，索克山主峰海拔5500英尺，其热门徒步步道位于华盛顿州西北部，往返路程仅4英里多一点。该协会在其网站上对该山脉的介绍中提到，多名徒步者在步道通行时坠落身亡，并称该步道“陡峭狭窄，部分区域因徒步者抄近道绕过弯道而遭到侵蚀”。
Man falls over 800 feet to his death 1 day after another hiker found dead on same mountain
September 24, 2026 / 9:03 AM EDT / CBS News
A man plummeted at least 800 feet to his death while hiking on Washington state’s Sauk Mountain over the weekend, authorities said, just a day after another person was found dead on the same mountain.
Gary Idleburg, 66, of Olympia, may have fallen as much as 1,000 feet after going over the edge of a switchback trail, according to the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office. Witnesses who reported Idleburg’s fall told the sheriff’s office that it happened at around 3:30 p.m. local time on Saturday.
Other hikers on the mountain initially located Idleburg and guided emergency responders to him, the office said. Although responders attempted to save his life once there, he was pronounced dead at the scene. The recovery operation wasn’t completed until about 8 p.m. because Idleburg had fallen in a remote spot surrounded by “difficult terrain,” according to the sheriff.
Idleburg’s death came just one day after another hiker was found dead on the same mountain. Peter Kalapaca, 78, was discovered unresponsive in a steep section of the Sauk Mountain Trail on Friday night, the sheriff’s office announced Saturday.
A helicopter flight crew located Kalapaca after he was reported missing on the mountain Thursday and determined he was dead. His body was identified in an area that ground search crews couldn’t access, according to the sheriff, but a different helicopter was eventually able to recover his remains.
The sheriff’s office shared condolences to Kalapaca’s family in a statement.
“While nothing can lessen the loss of a loved one, we are grateful for the extraordinary effort made by everyone involved, which allows some measure of closure for the family,” the statement said.
With a peak altitude of 5,500 feet, Sauk Mountain offers a popular hiking trail in northwestern Washington that covers just over 4 miles roundtrip, according to the Washington Trails Association. In a description of the mountain on its website, the association notes that multiple people have fallen to their deaths while navigating the trail, which, it says, “is steep and narrow, and in some places eroded from hikers cutting the switchbacks.”
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