Four rescue specialists from Lihu‘e Fire Station, with helicopter support, worked yesterday to evacuate a hiker who fell some 40 feet around noon Wednesday onto rocks on the Napali Coast.
An Inter-Island helicopter helped airlift the hiker, who fell while hiking about 1/2 mile on the Hanalei side of the Kalalau Valley.
The man, a 21-year-old visitor from St. Paul, Minn., had spent the night where he had landed because he possibly broke a limb. He was almost out of water and suffering heat exhaustion when rescuers arrived.
(Source: Kauai Garden Island News)
