Left hanging
Ranger Leo Larson was pushing papers in a National Park Service cabin when the high-alert beacon sounded. Lightning had crashed into 13 young climbers on Grand Teton. Rescue hinged on outracing the setting sun.
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In a flash
Thunderheads crowd the Teton range as they do on many a summer afternoon. But on July 26, the clouds' fury caught a group of Idaho hikers by surprise. In the end, a woman was dead and another in her group was seriously injured and dangling perilously from his rope.
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