A College of Wooster student on a spring break camping trip died Wednesday in Arizona, falling 100 feet while hiking with a group of students from the school.

Rhishav Choudhury, 22, was on the trip with 28 other students as part of WOODS, which is the school's outdoors club, Kurt Holmes, Wooster's dean of students, said in an email sent out Thursday.

Choudhury was hiking near West Clear Creek at about 6 p.m. when he wandered away from a small group, according to a news release from the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office in Prescott, Ariz.

Students from the group began looking for him and discovered he had fallen into a rocky area near the trail.

Four students were able to hike to where Choudhury had fallen and were able to call for help. Sheriff's officials said the remote area made it difficult to get a signal for cell phones.

Emergency crews used a helicopter to land near where Choudbury had fallen but still had to hike across a canyon and river in darkness. A paramedic reached him at about 8:30 p.m. and confirmed he had died from injuries caused the fall.

The incident is under investigation but no foul play is suspect, officials said.

Choudhury, from Guwahati, India, was a senior majoring in philosophy at Wooster and also worked as an assistant in the college's library. School officials have contacted his family. Holmes and other school officials are traveling to Arizona to assist the students.

"It's heartbreaking," said Wooster spokesman John Hopkins. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the young man's friends and family. It's a terrible tragedy."

An announcement will be made on campus services for Choudhury, according to Holmes.