Rescuers had to rappel 200 feet down a steep cliff face to save two stranded hikers in New York last week.
According to officials with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, they received a report of two stranded hikers at Conklin Gully in the High Tore Wildlife Management Area in the town of Italy, New York, at 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11.
Mud, erosion, and high-water flows had reportedly made it difficult for the pair from Manchester and Farmington to return the way they had hiked in.
The Ontario County High Angle Rope Team and the Yates County Rope Team worked with forest rangers and fire departments from Benton, Bristol, Canandaigua, Cheshire, Dundee, Farmington, Honeoye, Middlesex, and Naples to set up a high angle rope system to extract the hikers.
Rescuers rappelled down, secured the subjects, and brought them up 200 feet before the temperature dropped and darkness set in.
Neither subject was injured, but both were evaluated by Naples Ambulance. Resources were clear at 8:30 p.m.