Las Vegas first responders conduct seven-hour rescue of injured climber stranded 600 feet up rock face

First responders successful Nevada carried retired a melodramatic seven-hour rescue aft a climber was earnestly injured portion stranded astir 600 feet up a steep stone look adjacent Las Vegas.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) said hunt and rescue teams were notified astir noon Saturday astir an injured climber connected the "Dream Safari" way on Dark Shadows Wall successful Pine Creek.

Authorities said the climber had fallen an estimated 40 to 50 feet, suffering terrible caput and backmost injuries.

The victim’s climbing spouse and a usher from different climbing enactment reached the injured climber and controlled the bleeding portion awaiting rescue crews.

Rescuers secured the climber successful a titanium litter and lowered the diligent successful stages down the stone face. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

Four hunt and rescue officers and a pb ascent unpaid were inserted by the department’s AIR3 chopper respective 100 feet supra the unfortunate astatine the apical of the route.

Rescuers past rappelled down the stone face, provided aesculapian attraction portion suspended mid-face, and secured the diligent successful a titanium litter.

Crews constructed a lowering strategy and brought the climber respective 100 feet down to the crushed done 3 abstracted lowering stations, with a rescuer attending to the diligent during the descent.

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Las Vegas constabulary hunt and rescue teams spent 7 hours lowering an injured climber 600 feet to safety. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

Once astatine the base, further volunteers carried the litter to an extraction constituent wherever the chopper returned to airlift the unfortunate to a Bureau of Land Management helipad. 

The climber was past transferred to a crushed ambulance and taken to a section hospital.

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The climber’s helmet was destroyed successful the autumn but apt saved their life, officials said. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

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LVMPD wrote connected Facebook that the full cognition lasted astir 7 hours from archetypal insertion to last extraction. 

"Although the victim's helmet was destroyed during the fall, it apt saved their life," constabulary said.

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