Previous accidents
* In 2013, emergency responders rescued a man who fell about 50 feet while hiking at Sunset Rock. The 30-year-old sustained critical injuries and was flown to Erlanger in critical condition. * In 2006, a climber fell 25 feet about 1.5 miles south of the Bluff Trail at Sunset Rock. The climber in that incident landed about 45 feet above the trail, and rescue workers used ropes to lower the man to the trail. That rescue took about two hours. * In 2003, a 43-year-old survived a 40-foot fall at Sunset Rock, and was rescued by the Chattanooga-Hamilton County cave and cliff team, which took less than an hour to pull him to safety. * in 1997, an unidentified climber fell 25 feet from Sunset Rock. The man, who suffered fractures to his pelvis, was rescued and taken to Erlanger. At the time, Scott Freedman, the information officer for the cave-cliff rescue unit, said the unit received roughly one to two calls per week during the summer months to aid in rescue efforts. Source: Times Free Press archives
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A 30-year-old woman is believed to have fallen to her death Tuesday evening from Sunset Rock on Lookout Mountain.
The woman, whose name was not released, was found lying on a trail at the base of Sunset Rock by two hikers, and it appeared that she had fallen about 90 feet from the overlook above, according to first responders.
Two hikers who found the woman around 5:15 p.m. immediately called 911 and began CPR, according to Todd Roeder, chief ranger at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, the system of parks to which Sunset Rock belongs.