Choudhury was from Guwahati, Assam.
AB Wire
WASHINGTON, DC: Rhishav Choudhury, 22, a senior studying philosophy at the College of Wooster in Ohio, was killed in a hiking accident in Arizona, last week.
Choudhury, who was from Guwahati, Assam, India, died after he fell about 100 feet from a rocky area near a trail where he was camping with fellow students, near Camp Verde, Wednesday afternoon, reported ABC15. He and several others from Wooster were located near the Bull Pen camping area along West Clear Creek. Choudhury had reportedly wandered away from the group alone around 6 p.m. when he fell.
Members of the group were able to hike to his location and call for help, though cell phone service was spotty in the remote area, a media release from the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in Prescott, Ariz.
A search-and-rescue team was dispatched, along with a DPS Ranger helicopter around 6 p.m. Choudhury’s body was found about an hour later and a paramedic confirmed that he had died after the fall. His body was removed Thursday morning.
Cleveland.com reported Choudhury was on the trip with 28 other students as part of WOODS, which is the school’s outdoors club, Kurt Holmes, Wooster’s dean of students, said in an email sent out Thursday.
Choudhury also worked as an assistant in the Wooster college’s library. School officials have contacted his family. Holmes and other school officials are traveling to Arizona to assist the students.
“It’s heartbreaking,” said Wooster spokesman John Hopkins. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the young man’s friends and family. It’s a terrible tragedy.”