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KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — A paraglider has died after a crash on Bald Mountain. The Ketchum Fire Department says the 24-year-old crashed on the Upper Grayhawk run on the Warm Springs side of the mountain around 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
KBOI-TV reports (http://is.gd/oInCSF) firefighters and Sun Valley Ski Patrol members carried the man to the parking lot on a toboggan.
Paramedics were able to resuscitate the man in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, but he died from his injuries later in the day.
The paragilder's name has not been released.
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Information from: KBOI-TV, http://www.kboi2.com
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