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RescueOutcome: Rescued by SARLost

Rescue — Mount Lafayette, Dec 14, 2018

·Mount Lafayette·Old Bridle Path (alpine zone between Greenleaf Hut and Lafayette summit)

Robert Cummings, 25, of Loudon, New Hampshire

Per NH Fish and Game, Cummings began at about 7 a.m., turned back near the Lafayette summit as weather deteriorated, and was 'overcome by 40 mph wind and zero visibility' after wind took his map and compass. He posted to Facebook ('send help, stuck by cairn on Old Bridle…Wind took map and compass white out conditions') and sheltered by a cairn; conservation officers reached him at about 4:30 p.m., uninjured, and guided him out, arriving at the trailhead around 7 p.m.

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