{"id":19213,"date":"2016-09-29T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-air-guard-rescues-injured-climber-from-pioneer-peak\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:37:00","slug":"alaska-air-guard-rescues-injured-climber-from-pioneer-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-air-guard-rescues-injured-climber-from-pioneer-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Air Guard rescues injured climber from Pioneer Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANCHORAGE \u2014 A climber injured in a fall on Pioneer Peak near Palmer was hoisted to safety Monday night by the Alaska Air Guard.<\/p>\n

Alaska State Troopers said 23-year-old Shawnee Whitehorse of Palmer fell and was injured when an ice axe lodged in her back.<\/p>\n

Her climbing partner, 46-year-old Lisa Pierimarchi, reported the fall shortly after 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

She told troopers that Whitehorse was unable to move and that both climbers were getting cold due to falling temperatures.<\/p>\n

She provided GPS coordinates to rescuers.<\/p>\n

The Butte Fire Department paramedics began hiking to the climbers but faced steep terrain and called for the Alaska Air Guard, which had a crew ready to launch.<\/p>\n

Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said Whitehorse\u2019s injury was not life-threatening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANCHORAGE \u2014 A climber injured in a fall on Pioneer Peak near Palmer was hoisted to safety Monday night by the Alaska Air Guard. Alaska State Troopers said 23-year-old Shawnee Whitehorse of Palmer fell and was injured when an ice axe lodged in her back. Her climbing partner, 46-year-old Lisa Pierimarchi, reported the fall shortly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19213"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}