A rock climber who was found dead Thursday after a possible medical emergency at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area has been identified.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Friday that the Clark County Coroner's Office identified the climber as 59-year-old Thomas Allard of Las Vegas.
The coroner did not give Allard's cause of death.
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But his son tells the newspaper that his father suffered some kind of cardiac episode.
Ashley Allard says his father collapsed but did not fall because he was in a harness.
Police were called Thursday morning after Allard reportedly suffered from a medical episode while climbing at the park near the first turn-out.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.