WEST JORDAN, Utah, Oct. 19, 2017 (Gephardt Daily) — The 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion of the Utah National Guard helped rescue a Lehi man Wednesday night after he fell an estimated 200 yards, off the face of a mountain in Summit County.
The 22-year-old victim was hoisted onto a Black Hawk at about 11 p.m. Wednesday after he was located about a third of the way up the north face of the mountain, at the bottom of Anderson pass at Henry Fork, according to information from the Utah National Guard.
The man was then flown to a meadow being used as a landing zone area, where he was then transferred onto a Life Flight helicopter for transportation to Intermountain Medical Center.
The Guard was assisting the Utah Department of Public Safety and Summit County Search and Rescue. The Department of Public Safety’s helicopter was onsite, assisting on the ground, but are not authorized to perform the difficult night hoist.
