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Rescuers Find Overdue Hiker With ‘Game Changer’ Technology – CBS Denver
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Rescuers found a man lost near Mount Evans with the help of cell phone technology. It helped provide better, accurate information about where the hiker exactly was on the mountain. (credit: CBS) On Thursday, officials reported the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center received an alert about the overdue hiker in …
A rescue worker died while looking for a missing hiker on Mount Baldy in California
Timothy Staples, of the West Valley Search and Rescue team, was among those looking for Sreenivas “Sree” Mokkapati, a 52-year-old reported missing December 8 while hiking to the Mount Baldy summit. At 1 p.m. local time Saturday, Staples’ partner said on the radio they had become separated from each other, the sheriff’s department said in …
Hiker drags himself through rugged Australia woods for 2 days after breaking leg, arm
BRISBANE, Australia — A hiker on Wednesday said he crawled for two days through rugged Australian woodland with a broken leg and arm after falling 20 feet down a waterfall and then dropping his cellphone in a creek. Neil Parker, 54, was recovering in a Brisbane hospital after he was rescued by a search helicopter …
One hiker dead and 4 others suffer heat exhaustion in Malibu Hills
One hiker died and four others suffered from heat exhaustion when their group ran out of water during a hike in the Malibu Hills on Monday, according to officials from the Los Angeles County Fire Department and Sheriff’s Department. A call came in around 2 p.m. reporting that two hikers appeared to be suffering from …
A hiker lost for 5 days in the Montana mountains says he survived off berries and bugs
While with family members in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, a mountainous region on the border of Montana and Idaho, Laga’s brother’s horse went lame. Laga, the strongest hiker of the group, offered to switch with his brother and walk. He volunteered to walk ahead of the group toward the trailhead but made a wrong turn and …
Ukrainian hiker murder: Second suspect arrested
A second man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Ukrainian tourist Ivan Ivanov on Chapman’s Peak Drive, Western Cape police said on Wednesday. The man, 24, was arrested at Hout Bay harbour in the early hours of Wednesday morning, said Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana. She said detectives had been hard at work following …
73-year-old hiker found a week after he got lost
Eugene Jo went missing June 22 after becoming separated from a hiking group near Mount Waterman in the San Gabriel Mountains of the Angeles National Forest, according to a Twitter post from the Montrose Search and Rescue Team. Jo was discovered Saturday morning around 11 a.m. Pacific time, according to the search and rescue team. …
