A rescue team hoisted a 20-year-old climber to safety Wednesday after the person was injured falling 200 feet while climbing Maroon Peak near Aspen.
Mountain Rescue Aspen sent 14 volunteers to locate the climber after the Pitkin County Regional Emergency Dispatch Center received a call about the incident, which occurred around 10 a.m. Wednesday at an elevation of more than 13,000 feet, according to a press release.
Authorities said the climber, whose name and gender were not made public, had been climbing solo and that the fall had been witnessed by another climber, who was able to call for help on a cell phone. The climber sustained multiple injuries in the fall, the press release said.
Mountain Rescue Aspen used a hoist rescue on the 14,163-foot-tall peak and flew the victim to Aspen Pitkin County Airport, where an ambulance took the climber to Aspen Valley Health. The injured climber was removed from the mountain at 12:22 p.m. The climber’s condition upon arrival at the hospital is not clear.
All rescue personnel were out of the field by 2:41 pm.
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