Incident:Woman Stuck in Zero G Canyon 2017/08/18

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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
Swift water problem
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.

Accounts[edit]

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/08/18/rescuers-use-dish-soap-to-free-woman-trapped-for-12-hours-in-utah-slot-canyon/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sytAgnzmDsQ

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