Man plummets 500 feet to his death off mountain, woman falls 30 feet trying to save him.
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The man ended up falling approximately 500 feet to his death off of the summit of the mountain while the woman ended up falling about 30 feet before she was able to self-arrest and save her own life, although she was left badly injured. The third member of the hiking group immediately used a satellite device locator beacon to declare an emergency and managed to call emergency services from his cellphone to report the accident.
"At the time that the call was received, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks' Helicopter 552 and other rescuers were already engaged in rescuing an unconscious hiker from the Big Five Lakes area, so the search and rescue team and Helicopter 551 from Yosemite National Park responded to the Mount Russell emergency," the National Park Service said in a.
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