A 14-year-old hiker remains in a coma after a California mountain trek with his father went terribly wrong.
Zane Wach was hiking Mount Whitney on June 10 when he began experiencing altitude-induced hallucinations, according to SFGATE.
Not long after, he walked off a cliff, suffering a severe head injury and multiple broken bones.
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Prior to the hike, his father — an experienced mountaineer and outdoorsman — wasn’t worried about his son, who also hiked and competed in distance running, swimming, and triathlons.
“He’s in better shape than I am,” Ryan Wach told SFGATE. “The idea was that this would be kind of like his introduction to mountaineering.”
The two had successfully summited the mountain and were on their way down when Wach realized something was
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