Injured climber rescued by helicopter
Published 8:37 pm Tuesday, August 3, 2010
DARRINGTON — Rescue crews called in a helicopter Sunday night to evacuate a man who fell on Green Giant Buttress, a popular rock-climbing route on Liberty Mountain south of Darrington.
The man’s climbing partner used a global positioning system locator to give rescue crews an exact location of the fall, Snohomish County sheriff’s Lt. Rodney Rochon said.
The fall was reported around 7 p.m. and rescuers summoned a helicopter from Naval Station Whidbey Island, Rochon said. The helicopter crew hoisted the injured climber, 30, and took him directly to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Sheriff’s deputies and Snohomish County Search and Rescue volunteers also helped in the rescue effort, which lasted about three hours.
