An injured hiker was rescued by a helicopter crew recently in the Adirondack High Peaks.
According to New York Department of Environmental Conservation officials, forest rangers received a report of a hiker with an unstable lower leg injury on Cascade Mountain in Keene, New York at 9:15 a.m. on Tuesday, October 20.
The 16-year-old hiker from Mountaindale, New York had reportedly rolled their ankle just above the tree line.
A New York State Police helicopter was used to fly rangers to the scene.
A ranger was lowered down to the teenager. The ranger splinted the hiker’s injured leg and harnessed the subject. The hiker was then hoisted into the helicopter and flown to a nearby hospital.
The incident was clear at 10:09 a.m.
