A hiker has been rescued after sliding down a canyon wall beneath the High Steel Bridge in Mason County.
SHELTON, Wash. (AP) — A hiker has been rescued after sliding down a canyon wall beneath the High Steel Bridge in Mason County.
KOMO-TV reports emergency responders had to perform a high-risk tactical operation Saturday to bring the 25-year-old woman to safety.
A rescuer had to be lowered more than 350 feet off the bridge over the Skokomish River into the narrow, rocky canyon.
The woman was hoisted up to a helicopter and flown to a hospital.
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Rescuers say she had been alive but unresponsive when she was rescued.
There was no update on her condition Sunday.