Eldorado Peak Incident

[Dan_Miller]

FWIW from this morning's NPS Daily Ranger Report:

 

North Cascades National Park (WA)

Climber Rescued From Eldorado Glacier

 

On July 18th, four climbers were ascending the lower slopes of the Eldorado Glacier when one member of the group had an unwitnessed fall down snow and a short rock cliff. His companions found him unconscious at the base of a rock-snow moat. One climber made a three-hour-long hike out to make a 911 call, while the remaining two climbers, one of them an ER physician, cared for their partner. Rangers arrived to the scene via the park’s on-call contract helicopter. After brief EMT care and packaging, the patient was short-hauled to a site lower on the mountain, where an Airlift NW medical helicopter could safely land. He was then flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he remains in the neurological ICU with a critical head injury and bilateral arm fractures. [submitted by Kinsey Shilling, Chief Ranger]

 

[KaskadskyjKozak]

 

The companion that hiked out made good time getting help.

 

Hope the injured party recovers completely.

[Bug]

Bummer.

Get well soon.

[wayne]

Sounds like he was with the right people. Best wishes with the recovery

[akhalteke]

Good operation. Hope he recovers. His buddies sound pretty squared away. Good job guys.

[minx]

yikes! hope he's doing better

[AlpineK]

Yeah hopefully he will get better. Knowing a bit about the subject injuries like that take a long time to get over. Anything involving the brain is not anything like breaking a bone, and that sucks.

 

Good luck to the guy.

[mike1]

Best of wishes to the injured party!

 

FWIW from this morning's NPS Daily Ranger Report:

 

I was traversing through that area around then... Can I get the link to these reports?

 

never mind... found them.

Edited July 31, 2008 by Mikester