A group of hikers who witnessed a rock climber plummet 60ft on Mount Washington have been praised by mountain rescue crews for their quick-thinking actions that helped save the man’s life.
According to officials from New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, Lukas Lamb Wotton, 31, of New Orleans was climbing in the area of Pinnacle Buttress in Huntington Ravine around midday on Wednesday, July 2 when he fell.
The hikers who saw the fall called 911 and shouted to another group of rock climbers who were able to make their way over to Wotton and communicate his condition to emergency services. The climbers provided first aid to Wotton, who was found to be suffering from multiple injuries, some “potentially life threatening.”…