• Hikers on Granite Pass in Rocky Mountain National Park/NPS photo by John Marino

    Rocky Mountain

    National Park Colorado

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High Angle Rescue

a photo of a high angle rescue
Members of the park's technical rescue team execute a delicate maneuver, lowering a patient strapped securely in a metal basket called a Stokes litter. Rangers are clipped to the litter in order to care for the patient and direct the litter in its precarious descent while rangers above keep the litter and litter attendants belayed.
Photo courtesy of Rocky Mountain National Park

Did You Know?

a photo of a spider web

Hummingbirds use spiderwebs to bolster their nests, which are the size of a walnut shell. Hummingbird eggs are the size of a Tic-Tac breath mint.