Crime & Safety
Grantham Mountain Biker Suffers Fatal Medical Emergency in Wentworth
55-year-old John Borger III, of Grantham, was found unresponsive. Despite life-saving actions, they were unsuccessful.

WENTWORTH, N.H. — A Grantham man died Sunday afternoon after suffering a medical emergency while riding on a popular local trail network, according to state officials.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department was notified around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday after a mountain biker was found unresponsive on the Thunder Chicken trail in the Green Woodlands Foundation trail system. Trail bystanders immediately began life-saving measures while emergency crews were dispatched to the scene.
First responders from the Wentworth, Rumney, and Plymouth fire departments arrived shortly after, joining Green Woodlands staff and Conservation Officers to resuscitate the rider.
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Despite the coordinated efforts of emergency personnel, the mountain biker—identified as 55-year-old John Borger III of Grantham, New Hampshire—could not be revived and was pronounced deceased at 3:30 p.m.
Working with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, rescue crews transported Borger to the trailhead at Rowentown Road, where an Assistant Deputy Medical Examiner and funeral home personnel met him.
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