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PROVO — A 43-year-old Provo man died from a fall after he got stuck on a rock face near the peak of Squaw Mountain Tuesday morning, police said.
At about 8:15 a.m., emergency crews received a call from a person who was relaying a message from Michael Sean O'Donnal asking for help after he had gotten stuck on a mountainside in Utah County, Provo Police Lt. Nisha King said.
Crews were initially led to believe O'Donnal was stuck at Slate Canyon, but they pinged his phone about 15 minutes after the initial call and found O'Donnal was actually at Rock Canyon, which is located between Squaw Mountain and Y Mountain.
A Utah County search and rescue team was dispatched to Rock Canyon, she said.
"Our rescue team was called out as well, and when we got up here, he had already fallen from the mountainside," King said.
King didn't know exactly how far O'Donnal fell, but police tweeted he fell from "a significant height." A Utah Highway Patrol helicopter located O'Donnal's remains Tuesday, police added.
