On the evening of Oct. 20, a 76-year-old hiker from Rochester got lost while climbing Esther Mountain, one of the Adirondack High Peaks located near Lake Placid.

The hiker contacted a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation forest ranger and explained that they were cold and wet and had only seven percent charge left on their cell phone.

The ranger started hiking in and advised the elderly voyager to continue moving to stay warm. At 8:25 p.m., the hiker called again to report part of a tree was blocking the trail and they could not get around it.

At 9:17 p.m., the ranger reached the hiker, provided warm clothes, hand warmers, and a headlamp, and assisted the hiker down the Marble Mountain trail to the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center trailhead just after midnight

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