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Navy chopper rescues climber at Mt. Baker
JOHN STARK
THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
A U.S. Navy helicopter plucked an injured Canadian climber off Coleman Glacier Monday.
Whatcom County Sheriff’s Deputy George Ratayczak, search-and-rescue coordinator, reported that the call for help reached the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest ranger station at Glacier at about 8 a.m. Monday morning, and rescuers from the U.S. Forest Service and Bellingham Mountain Rescue mobilized at the Heliotrope Ridge trailhead.
The climber, a 26-year-old Vancouver, B.C. woman, was stranded with her companions at the 9,000-foot level during the descent from Baker’s 10,700-foot summit.
Due to the remoteness of the location, rescuers called for a Navy helicopter from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, and the helicopter carried two Bellingham Mountain Rescue volunteers to the site.
They arranged a hoist to get the injured woman aboard, and she was eventually taken back to Vancouver for medical treatment.
She told her rescuers that she had wrenched her ankle when a crampon caught in the ice.
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