Heart-pounding footage shows the moment Las Vegas rescuers plucked a free-solo climber off a local mountain face after the person appeared to overestimate their climbing skills.
The video shows a brave Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Search and Rescue member rappelling to the climber’s "stranded" position on the southern face of Lone Mountain and carefully climbing up a rock face to the unsecured and scared climber.
Read more at: https://nypost.com/2026/08/13/us-news/las-vegas-police-save-stranded-climber-on-lone-mountain/
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