{"id":1537633,"date":"2022-07-03T19:49:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T23:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1537633"},"modified":"2022-07-03T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T23:49:25","slug":"photo-army-chopper-pilot-nails-insane-landing-to-airlift-injured-stranded-climber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/photo-army-chopper-pilot-nails-insane-landing-to-airlift-injured-stranded-climber\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO: Army Chopper Pilot Nails Insane Landing To Airlift Injured, Stranded Climber"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphoto-army-chopper-pilot-nails-insane-landing-to-airlift-injured-stranded-climber%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1537633&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Oregon Army <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-texas-national-guardsman-drowns-attempting-to-rescue-migrants-on-u-s-border\/\">National Guard<\/a> medics came through with a daring rescue on Saturday, complete with a precarious mountaintop landing, to airlift a stranded, injured climber from the dangerous slopes of Mt. Hood.<\/p>\n<p>The Clackamas County Sheriff\u2019s Office issued a press release detailing the rescue process on Sunday, sharing a photo of the landed chopper waiting for medics to load the injured climber for evacuation.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">News Release: Injured Climber Airlifted by Oregon Army National Guard Helicopter<\/p>\n<p>More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/35w8H79R5V\">https:\/\/t.co\/35w8H79R5V<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MAiHj1nbwP\">pic.twitter.com\/MAiHj1nbwP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clackamas Sheriff (@ClackCoSheriff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClackCoSheriff\/status\/1543704311577788418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cClackamas County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies launched a search-and-rescue mission after a climber fell several hundred feet near the Old Chute area of Mt. Hood. The climber was transported off the mountain with serious injuries to an area hospital,\u201d the press release began, before going into details of what had actually happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt around 6:30 am on Saturday, July 2 a 43-year-old man from Happy Valley was climbing Mt. Hood, when he fell several hundred feet and sustained serious injuries. Witnesses reported the climber lost his ice axe and fell approximately 600-700 feet from the summit ridge to the rocks above the Hot Rocks fumarole,\u201d the release continued.<\/p>\n<p>A large-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/dramatic-rescue-boeing-cargo-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-waters-off-of-hawaii\/\">search-and-rescue<\/a> mission had begun then, including local authorities and volunteers \u2014 but when rescue crews reached the climber, they determined that an airlift was going to be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 1 p.m. a helicopter from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/omd\/ONG\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Oregon Army National Guard<\/a>\u00a0arrived at the location and dropped off 2 medics. A litter was also lowered,\u201d the press release stated. \u201cThe medics packaged the patient in the litter and the litter was hoisted into the helicopter. The injured climber was flown to a Portland-area hospital where he is receiving medical care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the press release, the sheriff\u2019s office also noted that the steep slopes and icy conditions make Mt. Hood a dangerous place to climb regardless of the season \u2014 and mentioned that another serious accident had occurred only about a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn June 24, a 31-year-old woman from Portland was climbing Mt. Hood, when she fell several hundred from the summit ridge down the Old Chute, resulting in critical injuries and a helicopter evacuation,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office added.<\/p>\n<p>But once the photo began circulating on social media, all anyone could talk about was the skillful manner in which the pilot had landed on the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow amazing to set a helo down on Mt Hood like this,\u201d NPR\u2019s Bill Chappell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/publicbill\/status\/1543732759960625152\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA+ parking job,\u201d Business Insider\u2019s Thomas Maxwell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomaxwell\/status\/1543730963229790209\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Petchenik <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petchmo\/status\/1543722869678641152\">declared<\/a>, \u201cYou\u2019ll never be able to convince me that piloting a helicopter isn\u2019t a form of sorcery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oregon Office of Emergency Management chief Andrew Phelps <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewjphelps\/status\/1543710578622861312\">added<\/a>, \u201cWay to stick the landing, @OregonGuard! Wishing the climber a full and quick recovery! A lot of search and rescue missions over the holiday weekend. Make sure you have a plan and are prepared to SAFELY enjoy all that Oregon has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon Army National Guard medics came through with a daring rescue on Saturday, complete with a precarious mountaintop landing, to airlift a stranded, injured climber from the dangerous slopes of Mt. Hood. The Clackamas County Sheriff\u2019s Office issued a press release detailing the rescue process on Sunday, sharing a photo of the landed chopper waiting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1537646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}