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发表于 2009-2-25 12:45:23
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Injured climber rescued from Yosemite's Half Dome
Injured climber rescued from Yosemite's Half Dome
By TRACIE CONE, Associated Press Writer Tracie Cone, Associated Press Writer Tue Feb 24, 8:57 pm ET
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – An experienced South Korean mountain climber was caught in an avalanche on Yosemite National Park's iconic Half Dome and was stranded overnight with a broken leg on the granite monolith before he was rescued Tuesday.
Jun Ho Wang, 38, was swept more than 100 yards down a rocky approach to the granite face and into an icy low-lying gully Monday afternoon. A fellow climber stayed with him overnight and on Tuesday morning — about 16 hours later — he was plucked from the northwest face of Half Dome by a helicopter crew and flown to safety.
"Most people in an avalanche don't survive," said Eric Gabriel, an incident commander for the search and rescue team. "This gentleman not only survived a 100-meter slide, but survived through the night in freezing temperatures."
Wang was the only member of his seven-person climbing party caught when the avalanche hit around 4 p.m. Monday, said David Pope, a ranger who was on the search and rescue team that found him early Tuesday morning. He said that at the time, Wang was about 2,000 feet above the valley floor preparing lines to ascend the 8,842-foot granite dome. |
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