Hiker Rescued After Falling Down Adirondack Mountain Peak on Wet, Wintry Night

Hiker Rescued After Falling Down Adirondack Mountain Peak on Wet, Wintry Night
Three snowshoers descend from the summit of Cascade Mountain in the Adirondacks on March 14, 2011. Mike Lynch/Adirondack Daily Enterprise via AP
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Forest rangers successfully rescued an upstate New York hiker who survived a frigid night on a rugged Adirondack mountain peak trapped above a cliff, after she slipped and fell hundreds of feet down from the summit.

“I thought I might have froze to death. There were like 45-mile-an-hour winds (70 kph) up there,” veteran hiker Hope Lloyd said Wednesday about her recent ordeal.