Last Saturday, a 19-year-old boy walked along a former track under the High Steel Bridge, one of the highest railroad bridges in the United States, located in the Olympic National Forest, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Seattle. , Washington.
“Dangerous” road.
The boy was walking on a muddy path here, slipped and fell from a height of 400 feet. The trail is not an official hiking trail and is considered “dangerous.” The path is slippery and steep as it is close to the bridge.
“We've been telling people to stay off these trails because they're dangerous, but people either haven't seen the warning signs or are ignoring them,” Tim Ripp, who was part of the Mason County Rescue Mission, told NBC News.
Rescue operation
To save the boy, emergency services had to attach harnesses to the bridge until they could descend and retrieve the teenager. The boy was taken to the hospital after the rescue operation. He was still being examined here, but the boy only suffered a few abrasions on his arms.
Reeb told the American news channel that between five and seven people fall from the bridge every year, and the majority of them die.
