Utah public safety officials used an infrared camera attached to a helicopter to locate two men stuck on the difficult Subway route in Zion National Park.
“Their car was still parked at the exit of the hike,” sergeant Kyle Curtis, the St. George base manager and hoist operator on the rescue mission, told The Washington Post.
Two hikers stranded for more than 24 hours in Utah’s Zion National Park were rescued by members of the Utah Department of Public Safety on Jan. 21. The men were attempting a top-down trek that NPS describes as a “very strenuous 9.5-mile through-hike that requires rappelling skills, 60 feet of rope, and extensive route finding experience.”Following the report of missing hikers, Zion NPS staff and Utah DPS were dispatched to the Subway trailhead on Kolob Terrace Road. They prepared rescue teams and a landing zone for the helicopter, while the crew used Forward Looking Infrared to locate the stranded men.
DPS lowered rescue specialist Geoffrey Hall into the canyon where he had to wade through waist-deep, freezing water. A route for
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