WOMAN FREED FROM CANYON WITH DISH SOAP

A woman was wedged in a slot canyon in the southern Utah’s San Rafael Swell for 12 hours last week before rescuers were able to wrestle her out with the help of a gallon of dish soap. Twenty-four-year-old Lindsey Hargrave, an experienced climber, slipped in a narrow part of the horribly mis-named Zero Gravity Canyon and became wedged Wednesday. Hargrave‘s husband, William tried for two hours to free her before he hiked out to call 911. Said Mr. Hargrave, “The longer she was sitting there, she started kind of slipping a little bit and getting more stuck. Mrs. Hargrave had a difficult time breathing and was in pain and “extremely distraught” when they found her suspended in the canyon. A rescue worker was lowered down headfirst so he could hook up a rope to her climbing Hargrave’s harness. But she was wedged in too tightly to be pulled out. Rescuers then shifted Hargrave side to side “in a seesaw motion” while pouring a gallon of dish soap around her. Eventually, Hargrave was shimmied free, 12 hours after she became stuck.
* When she was freed from the rock, there was lots of Joy.
* There’s nothing like Dawn in the canyons of the west.