A 20-year-old hiker died Saturday after reportedly suffering a medical event while hiking in Monadnock State Park in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Fish and Game conservation officers received a call from mountain patrol rangers at Monadnock State Park in Jaffrey, New Hampshire at 4:11 p.m. on Saturday, June 13. The rangers reported that a hiker was suffering a medical incident while hiking on the Cascade Link Trail.
The hiker was reportedly roughly .75 miles from park headquarters at the time.
Good Samaritans came across the solo hiker and called 911. They then began CPR as his condition deteriorated.
Conservation officers immediately responded and requested additional assistance from local fire departments.
Members of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, Jaffrey Fire Department, Rindge Fire Department, Peterborough Fire Department, Dublin Fire Department, Troy Fire Department, Keene Fire Department, New Ipswich Fire Department, Massachusetts Lifeflight, Greatbrook Ambulance, Jaffrey Rindge Memorial Ambulance, Jaffrey Police Department, Southwestern New Hampshire District Fire Mutual Aid, and the Cheshire County Sheriff’s Dispatch Office all aided in the rescue effort.
Officials said that despite the best efforts of all involved, the hiker, who officials identified as Joshua Luth, 20, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, succumbed to the medical event he sustained while hiking and was pronounced dead.
The cause of the incident remains under investigation by the New Hampshire Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
