A woman hiking with a group of friends in the Columbia River Gorge outside Portland, Oregon, died after falling approximately 100 feet and suffering a head injury, officials say
Deputies from the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office and firefighters from the Corbett Fire District responded to a report of the fall around 1:15 p.m., according to a news release from the sheriff's office. While en route, they received an update that the woman's injuries were life-threatening and that bystanders had started CPR, the release said.
People die every week in national parks, learn to stay safe 01:23Stephanie Weinstein, a tourist visiting Multnomah Falls from Canada with her family, heard about the fatal fall just before she set out to hike the same trail, according to CNN affiliate KPTV"It's terribly devastating," said Weinstein, according to KPTV."It hit us hard to know that happened here," Weinstein said to KPTV.
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