The accident followed an underage drinking party, the same circumstances that killed another student nine years ago The student fell off a tall cliff near the tip of Rock Point. In much rougher weather almost nine years ago, another UVM student fell to his death. Back then, and again this time, there had been underage drinking. Walter Decker of the Burlington Police Department. A 911 call brought out the Coast Guard to the rescue.
Officials say the party started at North Beach, within walking distance of the cliffs.
Then 19-year old Mike Bartellioni, a student at the University of Vermont, and a few others walked down the beach and up Rock Point. We treated him on the way back to the station and had an ambulance waiting for him. The fire department and the EMS took care of him from there, took him to the hospital. Hes very lucky. That's approximately 35 to forty feet right there, and jagged rocks at the bottom, and I'm very surprised for survival there.