Climber with broken ankle rescued from Upper Exum Ridge

A mountain climber was rescued from the Grand Teton last week after becoming injured, according to the Jenny Lake Rangers.

At about 3:15 p.m. on July 31, the Jenny Lake Rangers were contacted to assist a climber with a broken ankle on the Upper Exum Ridge, estimated to be 13,100 feet in elevation, the agency posted to Instagram. The rescue mission was complicated by severe thunderstorms, and by the fact that the Teton County Search and Rescue helicopter was โ€œunavailable for a mechanical issue,โ€ the post reads.

The Rangers requested the help of Pocatello (Idaho) Helitack to transport a team of climbing rangers to the Grandโ€™s Lower Saddle for a ground-based rescue operation, and enlisted Gallatin County (Montana) Search and Rescue to provide a helicopter capable of short-hauling. (Short-hauling is a rescue tactic in which a helicopter team uses a long rope to tow a patient out of terrain that canโ€™t accomodate a helicopter landing.) Both of those teams headed to the Lupine Meadows Rescue Cache to help.

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