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Yosemte Valley Summer '89. Small cliff Lower Merced.
The first responders are already there trying to keep this guy breathing. He had fallen on a simple hand crack. Hands slipped out, feet stayed in, gear ripped out.
He flips upside down and pancackes his head into the deck, in front of his GF.
I help her up to the road, shaking so bad she can barely walk and is coming unglued. They bring the litter up to the road. Amazingly, a Lamar AFB helo lands on the highway - it looks like the rotors are maybe 25 feet from Reeds pinnacle.
I am on point, and we load the litter up. I look down at this guys face. His eyes
are gray and his head looks like a dog that got hit by a truck - from a 20' ground fall. The air medic checks his pulse, then yells "anyone got a knife". (to cut his litter straps in case he starts to vomit) I go "I do". She waves me on board, then checks his pulse, and waves me off. Door closes. The helo takes off. He is dead in the air. His first roped climb.
Had a night terror flashback on that one.
Yosemte Valley Summer '89. Small cliff Lower Merced.
The first responders are already there trying to keep this guy breathing. He had fallen on a simple hand crack. Hands slipped out, feet stayed in, gear ripped out.
He flips upside down and pancackes his head into the deck, in front of his GF.
I help her up to the road, shaking so bad she can barely walk and is coming unglued. They bring the litter up to the road. Amazingly, a Lamar AFB helo lands on the highway - it looks like the rotors are maybe 25 feet from Reeds pinnacle.
I am on point, and we load the litter up. I look down at this guys face. His eyes
are gray and his head looks like a dog that got hit by a truck - from a 20' ground fall. The air medic checks his pulse, then yells "anyone got a knife". (to cut his litter straps in case he starts to vomit) I go "I do". She waves me on board, then checks his pulse, and waves me off. Door closes. The helo takes off. He is dead in the air. His first roped climb.
Had a night terror flashback on that one.