Video Captures Hiker’s Dramatic Rescue from 500-Foot Cliff
- Posted on September 27, 2011 at 6:58pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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One hiker is thanking her lucky stars, and the brave rescue workers who saved her life, after she spent more than two grueling hours clinging to the side of vertical cliff some 500 feet above a canyon.
The 24-year-old woman reportedly became trapped while hiking with a friend in Topanga State Park in Malibu, California.
Her hiking partner was somehow able to climb back up to the top of the cliff but the woman remained where she was, paralyzed by fear.
ABC News adds:
The woman’s hiking partner turned yellow string into a makeshift safety line for her to hold onto, while trying to reach authorities for help on his cell phone. Rescuers from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department finally arrived nearly two hours later, just as nightfall began to descend.
After convincing the terrified hiker she was safe to let go, sheriff officials lifted her to safety in their helicopter, just around 6:30 p.m.
Footage of the dramatic rescue was caught-on-tape by a rescue helmet-cam worn by one of the rescuers, and released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The identities of the two hikers have not been released.
Fox News provides the chilling footage:
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Comments (90)
Captain Crunch
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:47pmI reciently had to escort a construction worker down from the top of a structure in a power plant. The man was absolutely petrified. Must have been the ride up in a cage riding on rails that freaked him out.
Report Post »Fear of heights is an awful thing. Once it takes over your head there is no chance of regaining sanity.
hamptonsurfer
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:17pmi ain’t no barney miller but it sound pretty suspicious to me that the couple made it that far and the guy got outta there no problem. but o.k.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:35pmI bet this does not get a whole lot attention on the MSM, but had they rescued a stray cat from a sewer system, the whole nation would want to watch.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 10:06pm…
OT
Heads up folks …
North Caroline Governor, Democrat Beverly Perdue, suggested the postponement of all state and federal elections for two years.
Report Post »nnewby
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 10:25pmShe probably just panicked and froze up and he didn’t.
Report Post »STICKTOGETHER
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 10:49pmI ain’t no rock climber, but what’s up with the outfit she’s wearing? Did she think she was going for a marathon run and her boyfriend suddenly changed the plan to rock climbing?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 11:31pmI’ve been there, but I did get out. That’s what happens when young, fearless and probably athletic people get into a spot and can’t get out. Hope they make her pay for the chopper, but glad she’s alive.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 7:46amThe “outfit” looks like a surf bikini, made of neoprene, but I could be wrong. Anyway, she looks like someone who didn’t know a flying F about climbing, and wanted to look good while she did it. She saw the task ahead of her and froze.
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:07pmWhat’s up with hikers these days? Roaming near Iran, dancing along the edge of a cliff.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:25pmAnd then there are those that climbed a fence to stand near a water fall in Yosemite and went over leaving the kids behind. They still haven’t been found.
Report Post »hgfriend3
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 6:37amThen there are those who climb over fences they should be climbing because Big Daddy‘s not watching or doesn’t care at all… :-)
Report Post »Rick16803
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:03pmHow the $&%@ did she get down in that nook to begin with? No way she slipped and slid down there. She would have gone completely off the cliff, it’s a straight drop and there is no way she could have popped into the nook while falling and with nothing to grab.
unreal!
Report Post »hazmat_factor
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:49pmGotta love some of these liberal buttheads, “people would worry about having to pay for their rescues, and might die trying to save themselves!”
1. I take responsibility for me, anytime I get in a jam, I look to God first, Me second, family third….government help is not on my radar, but I have ridden the ambulance once or twice and…IT AIN’T FREE!!!
2. It is not nor was it ever the governments responsibility or perogative to take away my freedom to fail. I learn from my mistakes and reserve the right to make them, and make up for them.
Report Post »hazmat_factor
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:53pmps: If I die from my error, guess what, NOBODY gets through this life alive anyway, and I’m gonna go sometime.
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:59pmyeah 911 goverment sponsored dial-a-prayer,next time bring a rope>
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 11:37pmHazmat: Please get over yourself. Sometimes God has to send trained rescuers & a helicopter to save a person. I am thanking God for sending help to rescue this couple. I’m sorry. I don’t intend to be rude. It just seemed that you were being sardonic.
Report Post »neither1
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:20amSo, if you’re walking down the street and trip over your own laces, break your leg and a cop and an ambulance try to help you, will you tell them that you don’t need them?
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:43pmI don’t know about you folks, but I frankly AM SICK AND TIRED Of first responders having to risk THEIR lives and our tax dollars on these so called “adventurers’ who constantly get in over their empty heads time and time again and need rescuing from themselves time and time again.
They get up on a mountain and get stuck there, that’s mine and your problems all of a sudden? Idiots. It’s usually leftists who are the ones that get stuck too, just like the idiot hikers who were held in Iran for 3 years. Leftists there protesting the war although no one will print that and they end up getting it in the backside from the very people they’re there protecting.
Again I reiterate: IDIOTS.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:48pmJust like the kids captured in Iran. They get released and they come home to bash the US.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:49pmHerman Cain is the MAN!
Cain/Little Ceaser 2012!
The 999 Plan!
Any large one topping, only $9.99!!!
It’s a flat tax. Or as Cain calls it, a Thin Crust tax!
Maybe Herman Cain and Vice President Little Ceaser will appoint the Noid as Secretary of Defense!
Speaker of the House Papa John Boehner!
Godfather Cain will make you an offer you can’t refuse………………to laugh at!
Vote Herman Cain from the Pizza Chain!
Report Post »hazmat_factor
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:51pmDitto!!!
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 10:38pmWhat the hell does this have to do with a stranded hiker?
Report Post »A$$E$…. I’m $0 clever.
stadylady
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:36pmI’ve been stuck in a situation like that only 30 feet off the ground and it is scary. They should have had some equipment on them in terrain like that. Glad she’s okay, though.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:16pmI agree – if people PUT themselves into situations like this…. they had better be ready for the consequences. (Such as a BILL from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:14pmIf people with common sense realized the real cost in the event of a rescue, they will change their mind. Either pay with money or hundreds of hours of community service. We don’t mind you do stupid thinks, you are going to pay. I know accidents happen, but this is stupidity.
Report Post »hazmat_factor
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:40pmI’m with ya, dude. Stupidity should be met with a stupid tax. Yes, I would have had to pay it myself a few times, but if it don’t cost ya, you don’t learn.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:45pmThat’s a great idea, repay in serving the county or wherever they needed rescuing in the amount of time and money spent in dollars or time.
Report Post »TheSoundOf Truth
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:16pmIf that was the case, I would have just jumped.
I don’t need another tax.
I’m taxed enough already.
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:11pmI like looking at pictures of scantily clad women.
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:14pmAnd, without getting all judgemental, she was rather good looking.
Report Post »Glad she is OK.
antiencenom
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 11:31pmWell at least you weren’t attracted to the boyfriend…. carry on soldier !!!
Report Post »things are lookin up………. oohpps now not so much again
NEAF
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:08pmShe must pay for the rescue cost.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:58pmAw, now y’all be nice. How could she have possibly known that climbing down a sandstone cliff 500 feet up might be dangerous?
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:20pmYea, and she’s not a blonde.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:56pmFrom a Mom…….
To boyfriend- What the he*l were YOU THINKING??? Oh, that’s right! YOU weren’t!
Report Post »To daughter- What the he*l were YOU THINKING??? Oh, that’s right! YOU weren’t! So sweety, apparently those hiking clothes I bought you from Cabela‘s weren’t “Cute ‘Nough”. Yeah, he is ALL THE SHEET isn’t He??? Well, when he climbed away and left your unexperienced azz on the side of a cliff-guess who rescued you? Now, put some clothes on and get home…I’m going to make a special dinner for your boyfriend. lol
Jack007
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:52pmDamn them rocks!
Report Post »Always Learning
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:51pmFor a short time I was a member of a mountain rescue organization in Washington State. That organization‘s opinion was that people should not be charged for rescues because they didn’t want a person who was worried about costs to not call for help in a life threatening situation.
Report Post »Lone Wolf
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:11pmLife or death situation and people actually thought about money?
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:47pm‘Tradition Dies Here’ It would be nice if you allowed a ‘reply’ to your comments, but I do understand. You are working hard to mindspeak the peoples and clarify our gov‘t’s REAL meaning…Must be a tough job. Maybe you’ll get Holiday Help soon???
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:58pmBe careful, he might ban you from The Blaze
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:44pmShe better open her wallet and reimburse whatever it cost to rescue her.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:49pmAgreed.
Report Post »boxy
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:51pmYea this is just pure stupidity, if your afraid of climbing don’t go rock climbing.
Report Post »Lone Wolf
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:13pmI agree, too. It would make people think twice before they do something stupid.
Report Post »babylonvi
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:14pmDon’t worry, they will send this future Darwin award winner a bill for the rescue(unless she’s an illegal alien of course.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:41pmIf we can take care of other countries then the least we can do is take care of our own mentally challenged…………Oh im sorry i got off subject thought we were discussing liberals
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:34pmMight have been a cold night hanging on a ledge in nothing but her undies…
Report Post »Midwest Blonde
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:29pmThank goodness she’s safe but….. what idiot would hike wearing next to nothing? Sure she had gloves (didn’t notice her shoes) but come on – a sports bra and a pair of short-shorts? forget the sunburn, how about scrapes and such? I wouldn’t dress like that for hiking!
Report Post »Zstimman
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:18pmI had to climb in the Marine Corps at their Mountian Warfare School, and I did not like it at all. You need to have a real need for thrills to want ot free climb anywhere.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:16pmyou do something stupid on public land and have to recused you should have to pay for the rescue
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:21pmI agree with the Teatards. People shouldn’t be allowed to just go out and hike on public land because accidents happen. As a matter of fact, no one should do anything ever.
Report Post »Tradition Dies Here
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:30pmExactly, to reiterate what I just said: to hold the threat of having to pay for ones own rescue may result in greater number of deaths due to people trying to get themselves out of a bad situation if they are afraid they couldn’t afford the rescue. We can’t expect the world to stop being adventurous out of fear of not being rescued if they get themselves into a bad situation. Tea baggers need more common sense. The adventurous spirit laid the foundation for the US. Danger is inherit in adventure….
Report Post »Tradition Dies Here
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:36pmThe saddest part is, is that Blaze readers are obsessed with this failed logic. Anytime there is a story akin to this one, where someone is in a bad situation in need of assistance, blaze readers are always quick to make assumptions and demonstrate their lack of compassion and concern for life, but obsession with money and government intervention.
Report Post »motherof18
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:36pmProbably that girl and her boyfriend are Muslim loving progressives. They thought they could climb down a vertical face of crumbling rock, that‘s because most progressives don’t even exist in the physical world. They live in a make believe world of leeching off of others, of slothful milk tit sucking, of crying and temper tantrums. They have never done one days of physical work thus they do not even comprehend gravity.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:41pmAmazing how the idiots on both sides can make any story political.
Report Post »Rocky_Top
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:18pmI was a member of high angle rescue back in the 90′s. We made them pay for their rescue. Most of us were volunteers with a few paid just enough for their expenses. They made it illegal for anyone to explore the cliffs including the high angle rescue volunteers. We disburst as a group and everyone live happily ever after because no one would ever go back out on the cliffs. If you believe that you must also believe that making guns illegal will keep people from getting shot. The fact is when we disburst people still needed to be rescued and we were no longer in practice or organized to help after people died. A new group 100 miles away took over. They were real pro’s for sure. The problem is that they do not know the land and they are to far away. Most of the time if you were in trouble on the cliffs you could yell and we could hear you and rescue you in minutes. Five years ago I checked the numbers and more people die out there now that it is illegal.
Report Post »Hungry_i
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:58pm@Trolltrainer
Aint it the truth? I read comments here and I understand why the Left views the Right as it does. Then I read comments on the Huffpo, and I see why the Right views the Left as it does.
Report Post »randy
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:06pmPeople doing stupid things really need to be sent the bill for their rescue.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:15pmI have to agree with that; and thank God she and the rescuers were kept safe and unharmed.
In AZ we have the stupid motorist laws where if someone has gone around barricades and attempted to ford flooded streets and river crossings do pay for the rescue expenses. I am not sure if the bill for the same to reckless rescuees ever made it to a vote here.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:16pmwish I would have read this b4 I posted..lol
Report Post »Tradition Dies Here
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:16pmWe can’t expect the world to stop being adventurous out of fear of not being rescued if they get themselves into a bad situation.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:06pmShe doesn’t look very happy does she?
Report Post »motherof18
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:04pmIdiots!
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:41pmIs it Mother OF 18 or Mother AT 18?
Either way, you sound like a dumb@ss,
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