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A pararescueman with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 212th Rescue Squadron assesses an injured hiker inside an Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter after two hikers were hoisted off of an Alaskan mountain, July 17, 2019. One of the hikers was injured after falling about 30 feet from a ridge into a saddle, and was unable to walk. The Alaska National Guard, in a joint effort between the Army Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 104th Aviation and the Air Guard’s 212th Rescue Squadron, responded to the incident near Penguin Peak, between Bird Creek and Girdwood in the Chugach Mountain Range. The hikers were in steep, rocky terrain at 3,600-ft. elevation, in a saddle about 200-ft.-wide and 75-ft. deep, with the injured hiker at the bottom, said McKinney. (Courtesy photo by crew chief Staff Sgt. Brad McKenzie)
| Date Taken: | 07.17.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 07.18.2019 13:03 |
| Photo ID: | 5589035 |
| VIRIN: | 190717-Z-A3507-1001 |
| Resolution: | 4032x3024 |
| Size: | 4.39 MB |
| Location: | ANCHORAGE, AK, US |
| Web Views: | 43 |
| Downloads: | 4 |
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