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Chinook Helicopter Rescues 3 Stranded Hikers on the Highest Peak in the Contiguous U.S.

A CH-47 helicopter was dispatched from Cal Guard’s Army Aviation Support Facility in Stockton, Calif. last Thursday with a mission to rescue three hikers on the contiguous United States’ highest peak. The three hikers had become stranded on the summit of Mt. Whitney near the final camp of the mountain’s 14,505-foot summit. They were forced to endure a night on […]
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VIDEO: Climbers Helicopter Rescued Off 14,000-Foot Peak in California on Thursday

#Rescue CHP – Central Division Air Operations did it again. The helicopter crew winched three mountain climbers to safety. They were at 13,100' feet in Inyo county, a place called Middle Palisades. The climbers ran out of daylight and were stranded on the steep mountain side All were hoisted aboard H-40 and flown to Bishop Airport. These Officers make it […]
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Richard Branson’s Son Airlifted from Summit of Matterhorn

Wild man gazilionaire Richard Branson has a 29-year-old son. That son had terrible altitude sickness while ascending the 14,692′ Matterhorn in Switzerland on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014. He was weak, throwing up, dry heaving, and exhausted. His lead guide told him he had to descend multiple times on the ascent, but he wouldn’t listen. He continued up to the summit while “retching uncontrollably” as Richard […]
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