Grand Teton National Park rangers responded to multiple search and rescue calls in the backcountry over this past weekend. At approximately 7:30 pm Friday, the Interagency Dispatch Center received notification of an emergency 9-1-1 text from an injured hiker in the South Fork of Garnet Canyon. 28-year-old Nergui Enkhchineg, from Mongolia working in the area, was hiking when she slipped on snow and fell approximately 50-100 feet on snow and rocks and sustained significant injuries. Another hiking party in the area assisted by using an emergency backcountry application on their cell phone to request assistance. A rescue was initiated in the diminishing daylight hours, and using the coordinates generated by the emergency backcountry application, responders were able to immediately respond to the injured party with the Teton Interagency Helicopter. The injured hiker was short-hauled to Lupine Meadows and transported via park ambulance to St. John’s Medical Center in Jackson. Other incidents over the weekend involved a stranded individual on the Middle Teton Sunday. The interagency helicopter conducted a reconnaissance flight. The dispatch center was then notified that a private climbing party assisted the stranded hiker to safety, making help from park rescue personnel unnecessary. Additionally, late Sunday evening, park rangers responded to a visitor with a medical emergency at a backcountry campsite on Leigh Lake. Rangers transported the individual to the trailhead via a wheeled litter. A park ambulance transported the individual to St. John’s Medical Center in Jackson, Wyoming.
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