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October
2, 2001
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Serving
Western Deschutes County
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Sisters,
Oregon
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©
2001
The Nugget Newspaper
Sisters, Oregon
All rights reserved
Hiker
injured in fall on Middle Sister
Rescuers plucked an injured hiker
off the slopes of the Middle Sister on Sunday morning, September 30, after
the 38-year-old man fell 75 feet down a glacier.
According to Deschutes County
Sheriff's Office reports, Pete Ackers of Sisters was hiking with a friend
when he fell.
The friend stabilized Ackers,
then hiked down the mountain and accessed a cell phone to call 911.
Air Life of Oregon airlifted
three mountain rescue specialists and a paramedic to the spot where Ackers
lay in a boulder field at the base of Collier Glacier.
The rescue team reached Ackers
at about 6 p.m., evaluated his condition and called for the Air National
Guard 939th Rescue Unit out of Portland to lift the injured man off the
mountain.
Ackers was was treated for
multiple abrasions and contusions, a broken wrist and a broken clavicle.
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