{"id":103816,"date":"2017-08-31T17:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T23:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/body-of-durango-climber-recovered-in-wyoming-mountains\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T17:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T23:52:29","slug":"body-of-durango-climber-recovered-in-wyoming-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/body-of-durango-climber-recovered-in-wyoming-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of Durango climber recovered in Wyoming mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2c253fa3-e468-4b2c-86b2-79013b65dba0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2c253fa3-e468-4b2c-86b2-79013b65dba0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2c253fa3-e468-4b2c-86b2-79013b65dba0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2c253fa3-e468-4b2c-86b2-79013b65dba0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>PINEDALE, Wyo.  \u2014 Authorities have recovered the body of a man who fell to his death while climbing in Wyoming\u2019s Wind River Range.<\/p>\n<p>Sublette County sheriff\u2019s officials say 54-year-old Michael Sullivan, of Durango, Colorado, fell at least 400 feet Monday evening in the Steeple Peak area.<\/p>\n<p>A woman climbing with him hiked out until she found a group with a satellite phone. K2 Radio reports (http:\/\/bit.ly\/2em8eAh ) darkness prevented rescuers from going to the area in a helicopter until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Strong wind prevented them from landing a helicopter in the area until Wednesday but officials say it was apparent Sullivan hadn\u2019t survived the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the two climbers made it up Steeple Peak and Sullivan lost his footing between rappels on the way back down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PINEDALE, Wyo. \u2014 Authorities have recovered the body of a man who fell to his death while climbing in Wyoming\u2019s Wind River Range. Sublette County sheriff\u2019s officials say 54-year-old Michael Sullivan, of Durango, Colorado, fell at least 400 feet Monday evening in the Steeple Peak area. A woman climbing with him hiked out until she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[2748,21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-103816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-climbing","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103816"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=103816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}