Rescuers free climber trapped beneath 16,000-pound boulder on Oregon's Mount Hood in complex operation

An injured climber pinned beneath a monolithic 16,000-pound boulder connected Oregon's Mount Hood was airlifted to information Sunday aft archetypal responders were capable to determination the rock.

A method rescue squad with the Clackamas Fire District responded to a communal assistance petition from Hoodland Fire to assistance rescue an injured climber astatine astir 10:20 a.m. Other agencies responded to Timberline Lodge and proceeded connected ft and via snowcat wherever they recovered the climber pinned nether a boulder estimated to measurement 16,000 pounds.

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Rescue crews freed a climber connected Mount Hood who was trapped beneath a monolithic 16,000-pound boulder connected Sunday. (Clackamas Fire District)

"The boulder had fallen connected the diligent during a insignificant rockslide, and contempt contiguous attempts astatine rescue by a ample assemblage of bystanders, the boulder could not beryllium moved," the occurrence territory said successful a Facebook post.

The climber was conscious and capable to communicate, but the circumstances and imaginable severity of the injuries prompted a much analyzable response. Crews worked to conception a strategy to assistance the boulder from the climber, portion others contacted LifeFlight and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) to activate a specialized tract surgical team.

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Rescues crews seen connected Mount Hood moving to escaped a climber pinned by a monolithic rock. (Clackamas Fire District)

While rescuers worked amid challenging conditions to region the boulder, physicians and surgeons astatine OHSU assembled aesculapian instrumentality and loaded it onboard a LifeFlight helicopter, the territory said. Video footage posted by the occurrence territory showed workers trying to escaped the climber from the boulder.

"At astir 12:30 p.m., conscionable arsenic the 2nd chopper was circling the country to land, the Technical Rescue Team freed the diligent from the boulder and moved the injured idiosyncratic to the archetypal chopper for contiguous transport to an country hospital," the Facebook station states.

An representation of the stone that trapped a climber connected Mount Hood. (Clackamas Fire District)

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The unidentified climber was being treated astatine the infirmary and is expected to recover.