A New Hampshire Army National Guard helicopter airlifted a severely climber after falling approximately 60-feet on Mount Washington. WMUR reports New Hampshire Fish and Game received a call about an injured climber in the area of Pinnacle Buttress on the upper end of Huntington Ravine around 1:00pm Wednesday.
The Army National Guard helicopter withstood strong winds at a hover of 140 feet to hoist the injured climber, a man in his 30s from New Orleans, from the headwall of Huntington Ravine around 3:00pm. A member of the helicopter crew called it “one of the more technical ones that we’ve done.”
The injured climber was treated in flight and transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. The extent of his injuries are unknown.
