On Sunday, a blocked hiker was rescued by helicopter after spending more than an hour hanging alongside a steep cliff along the Pacific Crest Trail.
The terrifying image of the woman tightening the side of the cliff with a drop that lasted hundreds of feet was captured in a bodycam video published by the aviation unit of the Sheriff’s Bureau of Riverside County.
The rescuers responded to an SMS at 911 at 10:11 am in the morning of the white water reserve area just south of the County of San Bernardino. The woman sent an emergency text using her Garmin style communication device, according to the Sheriff department.
Two helicopter pilots and three crew members found the exhausted hiker blocked on the side of a cliff, about 20 to 30 feet from the plateau. Officials described the incident as “intense technical rescue” in An Instagram publication.
The hiker’s shoes barely grabbed the rocks and she still wore a heavy backpack full of supplies, officials said.
A rescuer came down from the helicopter – communicating instructions with the pilot while he was moving along the cliff – and marked the woman. At one point, the hiker shouted and grabbed the rescuer’s ears instead of his body to hold, shows the video.
“He simply could not risk asking him to raise his arms, that she was clearly of death by entering the cliff, in order to place a rescue strap,” wrote the aviation team on Instagram.
After a few perilous minutes, the helicopter raised the lifeguard and the hiker to the top of the plateau. The hiker, who was not identified, released his equipment and quickly caught a bottle of water.
The hiker has undergone any significant injury, officials said. She seemed to have some bloody scratches on her legs and her knees in the video.
“They both had the adrenaline discharge once at the top,” wrote the aviation team.
It was a busy season for the rescue unit.
Unity saved a man and a woman on March 3 along a rideline path About 9,000 feet above Idyllwild. Three hikers were also saved on April 5 along the Pacific Crest Trail, with suffering According to serious medical distress.
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