A Montana man died after falling while ice climbing in the Custer Gallatin National Forest over the weekend, officials said.
Kyle Rott, 36, was seriously injured Saturday afternoon when he fell near Grotto Falls in the more than 2 million-acre forest, just north of Yellowstone National Park.
A native of South Dakota, Rott was someone who “marched to the beat of his own drum and was eager to try and embrace his free spirit,” reads an obituary in KBZK.
Emergency crews rushed to the scene after receiving an emergency call from a witness who saw the crash, the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue squad said in a statement.
Kyle Rott, 36, died Saturday after falling while ice climbing in Custer Gallatin National Forest Rott was hiking around Grotto Falls in the Montana forest when he fell and was seriously injured
Five search teams were dispatched to find Rott, along with two helicopters.
He was found on a remote trail with a head injury, and flown about twenty miles north to a hospital in Bozeman.
Rott later died in hospital. The death was ruled accidental, caused by blunt force trauma from a fall, the sheriff’s department coroner said.
He has spent most of his life since graduating from the University of Montana in 2005 traveling the American West and working an eclectic array of outdoor jobs “that allowed him to embark on adventures and live life on his own terms.”
Rescue crew photo posted by Gallatin County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue team Gallatin County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue
Some of those jobs included a year at a wolf sanctuary outside Missoula, helping with the production of ice climbing films, and guiding hikes in Yosemite and other parks.
“Kyle’s travels take him to the mountains across the western United States and Alaska. Some of his favorite places to hike were the Black Hills of South Dakota, Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, Yosemite Valley in California, and Hyalite Canyon in Montana,” the obituary reads.
“In each of these places, Kyle built a deep community of like-minded friends who quickly became part of his extended family.”
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