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American High Schooler Dies While Hiking in Austria


An 18-year-old American man died while hiking in Austria. Christopher Yates, of Park City, Utah, was on a high school trip with classmates when he slipped and fell 80 feet into a stream bed where he hit a rock. Yates was hiking in Heilgenblut, an Alpine town nestled in the Austrian mountains.

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