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This Sept. 3, 2015, photo provided by the Yellowstone National Park Service, shows the West Thumb area of Yellowstone Lake in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo. A 23-year-old kayak guide, Timothy Hayden Ryan Conant of Salt Lake City, died while trying to rescue a client who capsized in the West Thumb area of Yellowstone Lake Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (Jim Peaco/Yellowstone National Park Service via AP)

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Kayak guide dies in Yellowstone Lake during rescue attempt
June 15, 2017 8:23 p.m.

Kayak guide dies in Yellowstone Lake during rescue attempt

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — A kayak guide in his first season on the job in Yellowstone National Park has died while trying to rescue a park visitor who capsized on Yellowstone Lake.