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Rescuers find body of hiker who fell 200 feet into gorge
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A man died Sunday after falling off a 200-foot cliff in Kentucky.
Timothy James Amiot is the third person to die at the Red River Gorge this year.
Rescuers said Amiot, 25, climbed over a safety rail, jumped a crevasse to Chimney Top Rock and rolled his ankle, then fell 200 feet, according to a post from the Wolfe County Search and Rescue Team.
It was Amiot's first time at the gorge, and he was there hiking with a friend, according to WLWT.
Jason M. Lazor, 36, died there in February. Michael Hacker, 30, died in October.
"In the history of folks visiting Chimney Top Rock, in any records that we have, there's only been one person to survive falling from there," Drew Stevens of the Wolfe County Search and Rescue Team told WLWT.
Just after 10:00 am this morning, Wolfe County Search and Rescue Team was dispatched in response to a report of a male...
Posted by Wolfe County Search & Rescue Team on Sunday, December 13, 2015
