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A hiker fell 150 feet near the Mount Timpanogos summit Friday, a day after a woman fell in about the same area.
About 10:30 a.m. Friday, a 36-year-old man fell when he was about 20 minutes from reaching the summit, said Utah County sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Cannon. A Life Flight medical helicopter reached him while paramedics tended to him on site.
"There is [also] a physician with him now who happened to be in the area," Cannon said.
By about 1 p.m., he was off the mountain and enroute to the hospital with a serious cut, and other, less serious injuries, Cannon said.
The man is the second person to fall on the mountain in two days.
On Thursday, a 48-year-old Farmington woman suffered serious injuries when she slipped and fell about 150 feet near Emerald Lake.
The rugged terrain initially deterred search and rescue crews. Instead, a medical helicopter crew dropped off paramedics nearby, and they provided first aid. A second helicopter, equipped with a hoist, picked her up and she eventually went to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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