When a harness wouldn’t work, a deputy employed a bear hug to save the woman who was ‘death gripping’ an outcropping.

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A team member then “rappelled to her location and placed her in a rescue harness,” per the statement. Wolfe County Search & Rescue Team/Facebook The woman was hiking the Whistling Arch Trail ...