When a harness wouldn’t work, a deputy employed a bear hug to save the woman who was ‘death gripping’ an outcropping.

Riverside County sheriff’s deputies rescued a terrified hiker from a cliff on the Pacific Crest Trail on Sunday ... equipment and she was hugging the wall. The hiker had been stuck for about ...

Riverside County sheriff’s deputies rescued a terrified hiker from a cliff on the Pacific Crest Trail on Sunday ... equipment and she was hugging the wall. The hiker had been stuck for about ...

This week, a hiker clung to a Pacific Crest Trail cliff face, awaiting rescue after the trail eroded beneath her boots.

A PCT hiker spent an hour "death-gripping" an unstable cliff in southern California before rescue personnel managed to pluck ...