Man falls to his death while hiking with fiancée's 9-year-old son above waterfall

A man has fallen to his death while hiking with his fiance’s 9-year-old son above a waterfall.

A man has fallen to his death while hiking with his fianceé's 9-year-old son above a waterfall. The incident occurred at approximately 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, when 40-year-old Adrian Vanderklis of Roosevelt, Utah, was climbing near Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon with the 9-year-old son of his fiancée when the boy, who was uninjured, climbed down from where the pair had been hiking on his own to find his mother, according to a statement from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office (UCSO). “The woman reported that she could see her son, who was crying, but that she could not see her fiancé, and that she hadn't seen him for ‘several hours,’” said the Utah County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities were subsequently alerted about the missing man and Utah County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue volunteers were dispatched to the scene along with a helicopter crew from the Utah Department of Public Safety.