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Rescue — Mount Avalon, Oct 22, 2022

·Mount Avalon

Shawn Edwards, 54, of Hebron, Maine

Around 1:40 p.m. Saturday October 22, 2022, Edwards suffered injuries while descending Mount Avalon with a religious group and was unable to walk. A passerby called 911; Pemigewasset Valley SAR responded and a National Guard helicopter lifted him off the trail to the AMC Crawford Notch Visitor Center, then to Littleton Regional Hospital.

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