A hiker on a little-known Colorado peak is alive today thanks to a friend’s split-second decision to use his belt as a makeshift anchor—a move that kept the injured man from tumbling hundreds of feet farther down a steep, rock-strewn mountainside.
But the improvised save was only the start of a harrowing, all-night rescue that pushed search-and-rescue crews into dangerous, collapsing terrain as they worked to bring him out before dawn.
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📷️ : Chaffee County Search and Rescue North
✍️ : freddreier
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