Alaska Mountain Rescue Group (AMRG) is a volunteer technical rescue organization that provides search and rescue services in Southcentral Alaska. It responds to avalanches, crevasse falls, and backcountry emergencies. The group is also known as Alaska Mountain Rescue.
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Volunteers rescue hiker with suspected broken ankle on Anchorage's O'Malley Trail
Volunteers with the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group brought an injured hiker off the O'Malley Trail in Anchorage early Wednesday, after troopers got a report about him just after midnight.
The 33-year-old man had a suspected broken ankle and couldn't get back to the trailhead, according to the troopers' daily dispatch, which logged the report at about 12:05 am. The rescue group got him to the trailhead, and he was taken to a hospital.
The group, founded in 1960, is a volunteer nonprofit that averages about 15 missions a year, all under the direct control of the Alaska State Troopers, according to its website. Members are expected to train regularly and "be in a position to respond to missions whenever the call comes in." As the group puts it, "before those in need can be rescued they first must be located."
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Alaska Mountain Rescue Group, also known as AMRG or Alaska Mountain Rescue, is a volunteer technical rescue organization that provides search and rescue in Southcentral Alaska. Its members respond to avalanches, crevasse falls and other backcountry emergencies.
Its calls range from carrying injured hikers off trails in the Chugach Mountains above Anchorage to avalanche rescues near Turnagain Pass, where helicopters often take part. The group works alongside the Alaska State Troopers on wilderness emergencies and missing person searches along the Turnagain Arm and Seward Highway corridor.