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WY: Young Father Dies of Altitude Sickness While Hunting in Big Horn Mountains

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November 4, 2015

From FieldAndStream.com

Ben Sloan, 30, died of altitude sickness while hunting with friends and family in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains, in October.

Sloan and nine others had hoped to camp and hunt around the slopes of the 10,162-foot-high Hunt Mountain. Sloan’s cousin-in-law,

But Sloan eventually experienced flu-like symptoms and remained in camp. On October 15th Sloan was unresponsive. Emergency crews arrived on the scene but couldn’t save him.