Climber survives 500-foot fall in Sierra Nevada, rescued after freezing night

The climber sustained multiple broken bones and life-threatening injuries from the 500-foot fall and spent a night in freezing conditions at extreme altitude.

In the high wilderness of California's Sierra Nevada, a climber's single misstep on snow-covered terrain sent him five hundred feet down a mountainside — and yet he lived. He and his brother spent a night stranded at 12,400 feet, clinging to a narrow ledge in sub-zero cold, before a helicopter paramedic performed what rescuers would call one of the most demanding high-altitude hoists ever attempted. It is a story as old as the mountains themselves: the fragility of human footing, the tenacity of human will, and the courage of those who climb toward danger so that others may descend from it.

Climber survives 500-foot fall in Sierra Nevada, rescued after freezing night

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