A Canadian man was airlifted from the top of Champlain Mountain in Acadia National Park Saturday afternoon after falling 60 feet between two ledges.
John Kelly, park spokesman, said Xavier Moran, 28, was hiking with four others about three-quarters of mile on the Precipice Trail along a fire ladder section when he left the trail without the others, to climb freestyle. Kelly said Moran slipped and tumbled 60 feet between two ledges, suffering a compound fracture of his femur, the upper leg bone.
Moran called his father in Quebec, Canada, who alerted park rangers.
The rangers carried Moran, who was bleeding profusely, to the top of Champlain Mountain, where a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, picked him up, Kelly said. The helicopter flew him to an athletic field in Bar Harbor, and an ambulance drove him to Mount Desert Island Hospital. He was later flown in a different helicopter to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
His condition Sunday afternoon was not immediately available.
Correction: This story was updated on Oct. 11 to correct the sequence of events. Moran was not flown from the mountain to a field in Bangor and driven to Eastern Maine Medical Center.
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