WAIANAE — A 25-year-old hiker who died after falling 200 feet Friday afternoon was identified by friends and students today as Michael Anderson, a member of the Waianae Coast Neighborhood Board and a popular and well-respected math teacher at Waianae High School who also coached the school’s mock trial team.

The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s office had no official identification of the hiker, whose body was recovered by the Honolulu Fire Department yesterday.
The man and a 32-year-old friend were hiking Friday when the victim slipped and fell from a ledge near the Makaha Valley Towers condominiums. The other man called 911 at about 5:45 p.m. and made his way back down the trail.
The fall occurred in the same general area where 1st Lt. Garland English, a decorated platoon leader stationed at Schofield Barracks, fell 400 feet to his death Jan. 10 while trying to retrieve some lost camping gear.