The El Paso County coroner on Monday identified the man who died Saturday while hiking the Manitou Incline as 48-year-old Nickolay Jogolev, according to Gazette news partner KOAA.<\/p>\n
Friends set up a GoFundMe<\/a> to support Jogolev\u2019s family.<\/p>\n Emergency personnel arrived around 9 a.m. Saturday for a call about a person experiencing breathing problems near step 900, El Paso County Search and Rescue spokesman Chris Valentine said. The Incline was closed for several hours during the incident.<\/p>\n The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced around noon Saturday that Jogolev had died. <\/p>\n \u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the individual who passed away,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office wrote in a social media post. <\/p>\n The last death on the Incline, a difficult hike of over 2,700 steps and 2,000 feet of elevation gain, was last spring, when Oregon resident John Tate, 63, died after a medical emergency.<\/p>\n
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