Yep this happened to me in exactly the same place. Fully geared character, made my way to the coast to do some bandit hunting and got killed by a rock formation #alpha
0.37 will be deployed to Stable during scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, 5 March 2014 GMT. Changelog will be distributed at that time. http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/post/78119153354/weekly-report-starting-our-focus-on-survival