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Va. college student dies in Colo. hiking accident

    
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Virginia Commonwealth University student has died in a hiking accident in Colorado.
 
    
Eighteen-year-old Caitlin Kemp of Hampton apparently fell from a ledge while hiking in the Weminuche Wilderness area in southwestern Colorado on Tuesday.
 
    
The university said Kemp, eight other students and a leader were on a trip sponsored by the VCU Recreational Sports Department's Outdoor Adventure Program. Most of the other students also are from the school.
 
    
Kemp was a student worker in the program and a business major.
 
   
She fell 200 feet from a rock outcrop near their campsite in the Chicago Basin. She's the second person to die in a fall there this summer.
 
    
Kremp's family said she was doing what she loved - "hiking in the mountains of Colorado at sunrise."
 


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08/09/2012 4:44PM
Va. college student dies in Colo. hiking accident
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