After a Portland man fell 60 feet from a steep trail in Acadia National Park, rescuers spent eight hours getting him to safety.
The hiker suffered broken bones and lacerations, but his injuries are not considered life-threatening, park officials said Wednesday morning.
The 26-year-old man, whose name has not been released, fell Monday while hiking up the Precipice Trail on the East Side of Champlin Mountain. The trail is steep, with metal rungs protruding from the rock in several places to help hikers climb up the cliff face.
“As he was climbing one of the technical rung sections of the trail, he was reaching up and grabbing a rock above him to step up and pull himself up on the next step,” park officials wrote in a news release. The rock gave way and he fell, with the rock, an estimated 60 feet, somersaulting down.”