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Julia Clarke

Hikers witness rock climber free fall 60ft on Mt Washington – their quick response "highlights the special relationships that exist in the outdoors of New Hampshire"

View looking down from Mount Washington during August.

A group of hikers who witnessed a rock climber plummet 60ft on Mount Washington have been praised by mountain rescue crews for their quick-thinking actions that helped save the man's life.

According to officials from New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, Lukas Lamb Wotton, 31, of New Orleans was climbing in the area of Pinnacle Buttress in Huntington Ravine around midday on Wednesday, July 2 when he fell.

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