WEST YELLOWSTONE — Gallatin County authorities say a man has died in a snowmobile crash near West Yellowstone.
The sheriff’s office said in a news release that 53-year-old Edward Collins Eldridge, of Duvall, Washington, had been snowmobiling with a group when he died Thursday.
Authorities had received a report that Eldridge struck a tree Thursday morning. About 15 minutes after the initial call, the group reported that Eldrige had stopped breathing and that they had begun administering CPR.
The sheriff’s office, the U.S. Forest Service and the West Yellowstone division of Gallatin County Search and Rescue had responded to the incident.
Emergency personnel took over and began performing CPR on Eldridge, but their efforts were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The crash remains under investigation.