• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    It took rescue crews two hours to pull Wyatt Kauffman to safety on Tuesday after falling off a ledge at the popular tourist site’s North Rim.

    Wyatt told a local television station he had fallen while moving out of the way so people could take pictures.

    He said he had been squatting down and holding onto a rock with one hand when he lost his grip and started to fall back.

    “After the fall, I don’t remember anything after that,” he told Phoenix television station KPNX while in hospital.

    Wyatt was pulled to safety by a team from the Grand Canyon National Park, who rappelled down a cliff after deciding a helicopter rescue would not be possible due to the terrain.

    “We’re extremely grateful for the work of everyone,” said Wyatt’s father, Brian Kauffman, who was home in North Dakota at the time of the accident.


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      1 year ago

      Wyatt was pulled to safety by a team from the Grand Canyon National Park, who rappelled down a cliff after deciding a helicopter rescue would not be possible due to the terrain.

      If this were a plot point in a movie, I would have called it a contrived excuse to have the heroes scale a rock wall.