Hiker Missing for 2 Days Is Rescued From Glacier National Park
A hiker who slipped off a mountain trail in a heavily forested part of Glacier National Park in Montana and was missing for more than two days was rescued after a heat-seeking device on a helicopter detected him, park officials said this week.
The hiker, Matthew Read, 19, of Dexter, Mich., had last been heard from on Friday afternoon at the park and was reported missing on Sunday, according to the National Park Service.
A search that began Sunday afternoon and, on Monday, grew to a party of about 30 people culminated at about 11 p.m., when a helicopter from the Two Bear Air Rescue Foundation, which was equipped with an infrared camera that detects heat, picked up Mr. Read’s “thermal heat signature in heavily forested terrain,” the Park Service said.
Black and white video taken from the helicopter showed rescue workers as they used a 175-foot hoist to lift Mr. Read.
Source: The New York Times
