A hiker on the Manitou Incline died Sunday morning from what appears to be a heart attack, according to rescue crews.Skee Hipszky, a mission leader for El Paso County Search and Rescue said that the team was called about 8:50 a.m. to help a man who reportedly was having seizures and convulsing. The rescue team drove a vehicle up a 4-wheel drive road to the top of the trail and hiked about 400 feet down where other hikers had been giving the man CPR. Rescuers reached the man about 9:40 a.m. but unfortunately he had died by the time they had arrived. His identity was not released Sunday. "Unfortunately, when you get into a wilderness site like that, you just can't get a medical crew to you as fast as you could if you were in town," Hipszky said.The Manitou Incline, which has a vertical gain of about 2,000 feet is one of the toughest trails in the area.
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