Who: A 25-year-old man
Where: Lizard Head Rock, Sedona, Arizona
His mistake: He climbed up without planning the climb down
What happened: A man on a bike decided to sit on top of Lizard Head Rock, a rock that looks like a … yah, you got it.
The scramble up was no problem for the biker, but when it was time to dismount the head, the man realized it was too dangerous to climb down and there was no way he was going to go further up.
Instead, the man text messaged his friend to tell him of his predicament. His friend called local authorities for help. Maybe the stranded climber didn’t like how you can’t text to 911?
Anyway, rescuers arrived and found the man perched on a ledge that was 3 feet by 8 feet. It was 30 feet above the ground and 70 feet below a safe point. The rescuers set up a high-angle rope rescue rig using a mechanical anchor system with bolts driven into the ground. The rock around the climber was extremely unstable sandstone that made things tricky.
He was rescued and taken to safety more than nine hours after the man made it to the ledge.
Read the story here.
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