The Great Smoky Mountain Journal

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Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 03:53 PM

Tennessee College Student Dies In Vermont Rock Climbing Accident

BOLTON, VT. - Vermont state police say a college student from Tennessee has died in a rock-climbing accident.

Police say 20-year-old Rebecca Ryan of Knoxville, Tennessee, was with friends at a popular climbing area in Bolton on Saturday when she fell from a 90-foot cliff she was trying to descend.

Ryan, a student at the University of Vermont and an experienced rock climber, died at the scene