Rescuers brave ‘treacherously slippery’ terrain to reach hiker, NH officials say
Rescuers made their way through “a treacherously slippery rock scree field” to reach a hiker who’d spent the night on a New Hampshire trail, officials said.
The 30-year-old hiker from Danbury, Connecticut, was hiking the Great Gulf Trail in Thompson and Meserve’s Purchase on July 5 when she grew exhausted and took some falls, suffering minor injuries, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said in a news release.
The hiker “sent a text to 911 as a notification of what she was experiencing and what was going on,” but didn’t ask for rescue, officials said.
Then “during the early morning hours, she sent a text reporting that she was cold and feared hypothermia,” according to officials.
Conservation officers drove to the top of the trail early July 6 and hiked down through scree, or rock fragments, to reach her, officials said.
The hiker “was provided with warm fluids, food, and warm clothing,” officials said, and then she hiked up to the road with the officers.
The hiker was carrying supplies that “were instrumental in (her) making it unscathed through a chilly night perched on the side of a rock slide at 4,600-foot elevation without suffering from more serious injuries,” officials said.
Thompson and Meserve’s Purchase is in the White Mountain National Forest.
This story was originally published July 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM with the headline "Rescuers brave ‘treacherously slippery’ terrain to reach hiker, NH officials say."
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