Queensbury grad died instantly after fall while rappelling in Colorado

SALIDA, Colo. (WNYT)- Autopsies found two Colorado Mountain College students, one a Queensbury graduate, died instantly after an anchor failed during a rappel on West Apostle Mountain. The Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office and the Chaffee County Coroner’s Office said autopsies were conducted Nov. 2 in El Paso County. The release said Kaden Matsuda, 19, of Ridgway, Colorado, and Jackson Donlon, 20, of Queensbury, were recovered from a basin of West Apostle Mountain in Chaffee County on Oct. 29. The release said the cause of both deaths was multiple blunt force injuries. The sheriff s office said its investigation found Donlon was beginning to rappel from a primary anchor point on a rock substrate. They said the anchor appeared to be backed up by a piton and a secondary anchor made of rock substrate. Matsuda was attached by his personal anchor device to the same anchor points as well as the primary anchor point. The sheriff’s office said the anchor had a catastrophic failure o