Drone video shows how a hiker was rescued from a rocky ledge in a steep Colorado canyon while temperatures hovered just over 0 degrees, rescuers say. Rescuers set out to help the hiker in North Cheyenne Canyon just before 7 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, Colorado Springs Fire Department said on Facebook. The hiker was stranded […]
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Lost dog with bleeding paws saved by hiker after 12 days in freezing Utah temperatures
The dog looked too skinny to just be another off-leash pup running ahead of her owner. Emma Hicks approached her gently. The closer she got, the more she realized that something was very wrong. “I saw her paws were bleeding,” Hicks told McClatchy News in a phone interview. “I knew she was probably a lost […]
Hiker found dead in Grand Canyon, second in two months
A man died in Grand Canyon National Park while trying to hike from the South Rim to the river and back, the National Park Service said, two months after another hiker died on an arduous trek during high heat. James Handschy, 65, of Oracle, Ariz., was pronounced dead at the scene by park rangers Thursday. […]