FOXNews.com: Mount Rainier Ranger Killed in Rescue Effort

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Mount Rainier Ranger Killed in Rescue Effort Jun 22nd 2012, 12:14 LONGMIRE, Wash. –  A Mount Rainier climbing ranger has died during efforts to rescue four injured climbers from Waco, Texas. Mount Rainier National Park spokesman Kevin Bacher says 34-year-old Nick Hall fell 3,000 feet Thursday from the 13,700-foot level of the 14,411-foot mountain. He was dead when other rangers reached him several hours later. A helicopter plucked two of the injured climbers off the mountain Thursday night while two others were waiting out a worsening storm overnight with the aid of park rangers. The Texas party includes two men and two women. Bacher says all four have non-life-threatening injuries. None was immediately identified. The climbers were roped together when they fell on Emmons Glacier. The two women at the end of the rope ended up in a crevasse. Rangers who responded to a cell phone call helped them out of the crevasse. Click for more from q13FOX.

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