Incident:Woman Stuck in Zero G Canyon 2017/08/18
| Incident:Woman Stuck in Zero G Canyon 2017/08/18 | |
|---|---|
| Date | 2017/08/18 |
| Location | Zero G Canyon |
| Severity | Injury |
| Canyoneering-related | Yes |
| SAR involvement | Yes |
| Navigation problem | No |
| Environmental problem | No |
| Communication problem | No |
| Planning problem | No |
| Skills problem | No |
| Body movement problem | Yes |
| Rigging problem | No |
| Rappel problem | No |
| Insufficient gear | No |
| Gear failure | No |
Summary[edit]
A woman was wedged in a slot canyon in the southern Utah’s San Rafael Swell for 12 hours this week before rescuers were able to wrestle her out with the help of a gallon of dish soap.
The 24-year-old Salt Lake County woman, identified as Lindsey Hargrave by KUTV, had slipped in a narrow part of Zero Gravity Canyon and gotten wedged Wednesday, according to a Facebook post from the Emery County Sheriff’s Office.
“She slipped and fell down in where it was too tight,” Emery County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Janalee Luke said Friday. Hargrave‘s husband, William Hargrave, tried for two hours to free her before he hiked out to call 911.
“The longer she was sitting there, she started kind of slipping a little bit and getting more stuck,” William Hargrave told KUTV.
Emery County Search and Rescue rope team members reported that Hargrave had a difficult time breathing and was in pain and “extremely distraught” when they found her suspended in the canyon.