Article retrieved from the Los Alamos Monitor, Tuesday, August 6, 2002.

A young man from Los Alamos lost his life in a climbing accident on Saturday (August 3, 2002).

Garth Ramsey, 22, was part of a group spending the day climbing the steep cliffs at the canyon located at the end of Kimberly Lane in White Rock, according to Los Alamos Police Department records.
Friends said Ramsey slipped from the rocks while climbing and fell 200 feet to his death. Emergency crews arrived at the scene of the tragedy at about 3 p.m., and recovered Ramsey's body.

Ramsey is remembered as a young man full of promise, blessed with a great gift for music, who generously gave of himself to family, his girlfriend, friends, and community.

He was a senior music education major at Texas Christian University, and looked forward to playing in a symphony orchestra. He graduated from Los Alamos High School in 1998, where he had played trumpet in Marching Band, Jazz Band, and the Wind Ensemble. He was an Eagle Scout in Boy Scout Troop 122 in Los Alamos.

Raj Jain was Ramsey's friend and schoolmate at LAHS, an also in the Eagle Scout program. Raj's father, Mahavir Jain, chairman of the New Mexico District of Boy Scouts, remembers, "I knew Garth as a fine Eagle Scout. I thought highly of him. He was a very bright young man."

"Garth's passing is a terrible loss to all those who knew him," said Paster Harry Cronis of White Rock Presbyterian Church, where the young man had been a member. "Garth had immense promise. He was a very honest and responsible young man in all his relationships. He was warm genuine, and real."

Ramsey often played music for the Presbyterian Church, Cronis said. "Garth had a great love for Christ. He played for God's delight as well as for our human enjoyment," he said.