THOMPSON & MESERVE PURCHASE — A high-risk rescue effort was conducted for a severely hypothermic hiker on the Gulfside Trail near Mount Clay on Saturday night and into Sunday morning.
Despite valiant efforts by members of Fish and Game’s Advanced Search and Rescue Team and the North Conway-based Mountain Rescue Services to reach and try to stabilize him, and by the medical team at Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin where he was taken, the hiker died.
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If I understand it right with the wind gusts up to 80, this is enough to blow someone off their feet.
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