MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. (AP) – A Connecticut man was in stable condition in a hospital Tuesday evening, a day after he fell 50 to 80 feet on Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington.
A spokesman at Memorial Hospital in Conway said he give no details of Anthony Valenti’s injuries or condition.
Fish and Game officers worked through Monday night to carry Valenti, 38, off the mountain, the tallest in the Northeast at 6,288 feet. Valenti, of Woodbury, Conn., and Elke Bengston, 28, of Franklin, Mass., were hiking down the Tuckerman Ravine Trail when they got off it near the Headwall, a cliff area with waterfalls, said Fish and Game Lt. Douglas Gralenski.
Valenti fell at about 3:30 p.m., Gralenski said.
Bengston, who was stranded on a ledge, yelled to hikers on a nearby trail, who alerted officials.
Fish and Game officers and volunteers from the Appalachian Mountain Club and Mountain Rescue Service rescued the two.
“It was a technical rescue, meaning it required ropes and harnesses,” Gralenski said.
Valenti was carried out to Pinkham Notch on the mountain’s eastern side at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. He was taken to the hospital with a crushed foot and a possible broken pelvis, Gralenski said.
Bengston was uninjured.
Tuckerman Ravine is a cirque, a steep-walled rock basin. It is popular with rock climbers and, after it fills with snow all winter, with daredevil skiers in late spring.
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