Woman dies saving fellow climber from ice column collapse in Utah

Meg O’Neil pushed 21-year-old to safety but was pinned beneath falling ice blocks from frozen waterfall on Sunday

A woman has died after pushing her fellow ice climber to safety as they tried to climb a frozen waterfall in Utah, according to authorities.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the Duchesne county sheriff’s office said that it received reports on Sunday of an ice column falling as a group of three ice climbers tried to climb Raven Falls, a frozen waterfall near Indian Canyon in central eastern Utah.