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Dec 1, 2008 4:00 pm US/Pacific

Woman Dies After Fall On Mount Shasta

REDDING (AP) ― A 33-year-old New York woman has died while making her first climb of Mount Shasta in Northern California.

Susan Gravenkamp, a spokeswoman with the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department, says Chihiro Enoki of Brooklyn slipped while climbing with two men and fell at least 600 feet.

The three were climbing the Avalanche Gulch route Friday and were at an elevation of about 11,300 feet. None wore a helmet.

The woman's companions administered CPR after reaching her and flagged down two other climbers who activated a personal locator beacon.

Enoki was climbing with 30-year-old Christopher Kraul and 28-year-old Gordon Clark, both of San Francisco.

Shasta is one of about a dozen peaks in California that top 14,000 feet. The volcanic mountain about 270 miles north of San Francisco is near the southern end of the Cascade Range.

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