LONG LAKE, N.Y. -- A Buffalo man has drowned in an Adirondack Mountains river after he was swept down the rocky Buttermilk Falls and pinned by the current, police said Sunday.

Nicolas M. Padilla, 20, lost his footing Saturday as he and a friend were climbing up the rocks at the side of the falls after going for a swim in slower moving pools of water, state police said.

The two "began to traverse the river's current near the crest of the water fall. Padilla lost his footing and the current swept him over the waterfall where he became lodge below the surface of the river and drown," state police said in a statement.

Hamilton County Coroner, Virginia Jennings pronounced Padilla dead at the scene. Troopers said it took emergency responders about three hours to pull Padilla's body from the Raquette River in Long Lake.

The town of 711 people sits in the vast Adirondack Park, about halfway between Albany and Montreal. It's about 110 miles north of Schenectady and 130 miles northeast of Syracuse.

State police said their investigation is continuing.