Injured Climber Airlifted to Local Hospital
U.S. Air Force Instructor Pilot Captain Joshua Haveman has been recognized for his contribution to the rescue of an injured hiker in California’s Yosemite National Park. According to representatives of Fairfield, California’s Travis Air Force Base, Captain Haveman, while negotiating the final stretch of a 02 September summiting of the park’s famed Half Dome—an 8,800-foot quartz monzonite batholith named for its distinct morphology—witnessed one of his fellow-adventurers suffer a sixty-to-eighty-foot fall onto a small ledge some eight-thousand-feet above the Yosemite Valley floor ...
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