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The authorities reported that Hale was surveying a new cliffside route meant to connect two remote settlements when the accident happened. The rope path he was testing gave way under an unexpected rockslide. His team, who had been preparing equipment several meters behind him, said he didn’t shout, didn’t panic — he simply looked back at them, nodded once, and cut his own safety line to prevent the collapsing stone from pulling the others down with him.

Rescue units reached him within minutes, but the impact had already taken his life.

“If one day I fall, let the bridges stand.”