Deaf hiker saved by husky in Alaska after 700-foot fall

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Deaf hiker saved by husky in Alaska after 700-foot fall

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"One deaf female hiker is crediting a spirited Husky with saving her life, after falling 700 feet down a mountain during a solo hike in Alaska.

On June 20, Amelia Milling was on a three-day trek along the Crow Creek trail in Chugach State Park, roughly 30 miles south of Anchorage. About four miles into the journey, the 21-year-old’s hiking poles broke, launching her 300 feet down a snowy mountain. Milling then collided with a large boulder and slid about another 400 feet down the mountain, ABC News reported.

"When I first saw Nanook… I thought he was a wolf. Then I saw the little collar and realized he was there to help me." (Amelia Milling)


Landing at the bottom of the trail, Milling was bruised and shaken when she found a “guardian angel" in her path: a white Alaskan husky dog named Nanook.

"When I first saw Nanook… I thought he was a wolf. Then I saw the little collar and realized he was there to help me,” the Tennessee native and Rochester Institute of Technology student told the outlet.


Following the dog back to Crow Pass Trail, Nanook stayed with Milling through the night, and even pulled her out of the water by her backpack straps when she unsuccessfully attempted to cross through the freezing waters of Eagle River Crossing.

When she became hypothermic, she activated her emergency SPOT device for aid, ABC 11 reported, and the pair was soon rescued by an Alaska State Troopers helicopter.

“Nookie was nothing short of a modern-day Lassie hero,” Alaska State Trooper Lt. Eric Olsen later told KTVA. “Nookie has a true love for humans, and for what he does and he’s an incredible dog.”

Meanwhile, Nanook’s owner, Scott Swift, says that this isn’t the first time his wonder dog has made an incredible rescue, and that Nanook has relatively free roam from their home near the start of the Crow Pass Trail.

"He likes to go off on adventures on his own," he told Mother Nature Network. "He just disappears and goes and hooks up with a hiker or backpacker or a mountain runner. One time he met up with the Army doing a training exercise. That time he was gone for seven days."



Full story at: http://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/2 ... -fall.html
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