Hiker injured in fall on Middle Sister

Rescuers plucked an injured hiker off the slopes of the Middle Sister on Sunday morning, September 30, after the 38-year-old man fell 75 feet down a glacier.

According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office reports, Pete Ackers of Sisters was hiking with a friend when he fell.

The friend stabilized Ackers, then hiked down the mountain and accessed a cell phone to call 911.

Air Life of Oregon airlifted three mountain rescue specialists and a paramedic to the spot where Ackers lay in a boulder field at the base of Collier Glacier.

The rescue team reached Ackers at about 6 p.m., evaluated his condition and called for the Air National Guard 939th Rescue Unit out of Portland to lift the injured man off the mountain.

Ackers was was treated for multiple abrasions and contusions, a broken wrist and a broken clavicle.