KEENE, N.Y. – A 23-year-old man died Wednesday after falling near an Adirondack waterfall near Lake Placid, according to the New York State Police.
Garsevan Bekauri, 23, who is from Lake Placid and Geneva, was found dead Wednesday evening at Cascade Falls in the Town of Keene by a passing hiker at the base of a cliff, police said in a news release.
An autopsy determined he died of a head injury from an accidental fall, police said Friday.
Police were notified of the death sometime after 7 p.m. Wednesday State forest rangers and wilderness rescue personnel removed Bekauri from the scene, said Essex County Coroner Frank Whitelaw, who arrived shortly before 10 p.m.
The autopsy was conducted by Dr. Cara H. Soper at the University of Vermont Health Network, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, police said.
