{"id":326703,"date":"2026-08-21T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326703\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:20:21","slug":"rochester-hiker-rescued-by-helicopter-after-injury-on-mount-marcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326703\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester hiker rescued by helicopter after injury on Mount Marcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keene, N.Y. \u2014 A Rochester hiker was airlifted to a hospital after suffering an ankle injury near the summit of Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n<p>A Marcy summit steward contacted authorities around 2:30 p.m. Aug. 10 after the 50-year-old hiker slipped on a wet rock and heard a crack in their ankle, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>A passing hiker who is a podiatrist splinted the injured ankle before rescuers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police flew a helicopter to the scene, where a forest ranger harnessed the injured hiker before another ranger hoisted them into the aircraft. The department said the hiker was then flown to a local hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue was completed around 4:11 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keene, N.Y. \u2014 A Rochester hiker was airlifted to a hospital after suffering an ankle injury near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-326703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}