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Man falls down 3-story shaft at Snowmass

By June 13, 2012 | updated 14 years ago

Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of the Franklin Ave. Baptist Church, greets congregation members during Sunday Services at the Church in New Orleans, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The new face of a Christian denomination that formed on the wrong side of slavery before the Civil War could be an African-American preacher who grew up in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. The Southern Baptist Convention holds its annual meeting in New Orleans next week and it could see the election of Luter as president. Faced with growing diversity in America and declining membership in its churches, the denomination is making a sincere effort to distance itself from its troubled racial past. Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Gerald Herbert)

SNOWMASS VILLAGE — A Nebraska man celebrating his waning days as a bachelor took a different kind of plunge Sunday morning and had to be rescued from a ventilation shaft in Snowmass’ Base Village.

A man identified by a relative as Peter Fellers, of Lincoln, fell into the deep, narrow shaft on the side of the Capitol Peak Lodge shortly after leaving his bachelor party at the nearby Base Camp Bar & Grill. The Snowmass Village Fire Department had to perform a high-angle rescue with ropes and pulleys to pull the man out of a shaft 30 feet deep, said Capt. Jason Hutter.

The shaft was only 2 feet, 6 inches by 4 feet, 6 inches, “so it was pretty tight quarters,” Hutter said.

Nevertheless, a firefighter-paramedic was able to rappel down to Fellers to render aid and get him hooked up so he could be pulled out.

“It was a pretty technical rescue,” said Snowmass Village Police Chief Art Smythe.

Police and fire officials said they didn’t know how Fellers fell into the shaft.

Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of the Franklin Ave. Baptist Church, greets congregation members during Sunday Services at the Church in New Orleans, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The new face of a Christian denomination that formed on the wrong side of slavery before the Civil War could be an African-American preacher who grew up in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. The Southern Baptist Convention holds its annual meeting in New Orleans next week and it could see the election of Luter as president. Faced with growing diversity in America and declining membership in its churches, the denomination is making a sincere effort to distance itself from its troubled racial past. Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Gerald Herbert)
Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of the Franklin Ave. Baptist Church, greets congregation members during Sunday Services at the Church in New Orleans, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The new face of a Christian denomination that formed on the wrong side of slavery before the Civil War could be an African-American preacher who grew up in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. The Southern Baptist Convention holds its annual meeting in New Orleans next week and it could see the election of Luter as president. Faced with growing diversity in America and declining membership in its churches, the denomination is making a sincere effort to distance itself from its troubled racial past. Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Gerald Herbert)
The opening to a 30-foot-deep ventilation shaft for a building at Base Village in Snowmass Village is at the center left of the photo, covered with plywood. Photo by Scott Condon, The Aspen Times
The opening to a 30-foot-deep ventilation shaft for a building at Base Village in Snowmass Village is at the center left of the photo, covered with plywood. Photo by Scott Condon, The Aspen Times
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