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Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. Oh, you're going to be here.

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and you're going to be here. Mountain climbing is surely one of the most dangerous of the extreme sports.

It's a trial of wills that takes a clear head, teamwork,

and unflappable trust in your climbing partners.

The challenge is magnified tenfold when the climb is a rescue operation.

I'm Jason Epperson and on this episode of America's National Parks, the harrowing rescue of a climber at Grand Teton National Park.

Here's Abigail Trebue. August 21st, 1967, while climbing the 12,800 foot Mount Owen, two men heard an alarming

distant call for help from the neighboring Grand Teton Peak.

The men hurried their descent and rushed to the Rangers Cabinet Jenny Lake and knocked on the door.

It was one in the morning and a lanky blonde boy answered. The men asked him if his ranger father was home. The boy informed him that he was the ranger.

he was the ranger. Twenty-year- old Ralph Tingey.

Tingey rushed to a scenic turnout with a line of sight to the north face of the mountain.

He flashed his headlight in an S.O.S. Three short, three long, three short.

Faintly from high on the mountain he saw a flashlight respond in kind.

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