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RescueOutcome: Rescued by SARMedical

Rescue — Mount Bond / Bondcliff, Aug 28, 2005

·Mount Bond·Bondcliff Trail / Twinway Trail

49-year-old male hiker from Narragansett, Rhode Island · party of 3

David W. Pierce, 49, suffered a knee injury and possibly mild hypothermia while bushwhacking in the Pemigewasset Wilderness late Sunday afternoon, August 28, 2005. His two companions left him sheltered in a tent and hiked nearly 10 miles out to alert authorities. Approximately 50 rescuers carried him out on a litter over an 11-hour operation, arriving at the trailhead after 7:00 p.m. Monday; Pierce was evaluated and released.

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