50 YEARS AGO

June 29, 1972 – Mark Higgs, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Higgs of Fordyce, Arkansas, fell about 275 feet to his death, down the steep canyon wall near Bear Creek Falls two miles south of Ouray Monday at noon. After an intensive search Monday into the night and again Tuesday morning, his body was found in the Uncompahgre River at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, about 100 yards south of the tunnel on the Million Dollar Highway. Mark and two companions, Joe Durmon and Larry Garlington, both of...