A 55-year-old physician who had scaled Mount Hood was killed by falling rock that struck him on his way down, authorities said.
Dr. Gary Lee, an experienced climber, was with his son Sunday afternoon when a rock "dislodged from the ice above" and hit him at about 9,000 feet on the 11,239-foot peak, the Hood River County sheriff's office said.
He fell about 1,000 feet before coming to rest in an area of rock and ice above Eliot Glacier, the sheriff's office said.
His body was spotted Sunday evening by helicopter crews from the Oregon National Guard.
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