BAR HARBOR, Maine — Rangers say a New Hampshire woman fell 60 feet while hiking a difficult trail in Acadia National Park and later died of her injuries.
Ranger Ed Pontbriand tells WCSH-TV that the 22-year-old woman fell Saturday while climbing the precipice trail up Champlain Mountain.
The trail requires hikers to climb up ladder-like iron rungs.
After she fell, her fellow hikers called 911 and a nearby nurse began treating her. Emergency personnel lifted the woman up a 250-foot rock wall and carried her a mile across the top of the mountain.
She was flown to a hospital, where she died of her injuries.
Pontbriand tells the station that the rescue took 5½ hours and included 31 people.
Park officials haven’t released the woman’s name.
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