A Vancouver man was injured in a 200-foot fall on the upper slopes of Mount Hood early Wednesday, but was rescued and taken to a Portland-area hospital by late afternoon.
Bryan Daniel Call, 25, reportedly suffered a fractured leg and an elbow injury, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office reported.
The accident occurred just before 7 a.m., when dispatchers received a cell phone call from another climber.
Call was among a large crowd of climbers in the Hogsback area, close to 10,000 feet elevation on the main south approach to the Hood summit, said Detective Jim Strovink of the Sheriff’s Office.