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- A hiker spent some eight hours trapped above a vertical cliff face in the Adirondack Mountains.
- The temperatures were frigid, and rescuers didn't reach her until 1:30 a.m. on December 27.
- Rangers said the only thing preventing her from falling over the cliff was a small spruce tree.
An experienced hiker in New York's Adirondack Mountains recently survived a harrowing night trapped just above a cliff, in frigid temperatures, after sliding hundreds of feet from the summit of South Dix Mountain.