Two hikers were rescued by rangers in Rocky Mountain National Park after mistakenly climbing a technical route on Longs Peak and becoming stuck on a ledge. The unnamed men set out to climb the standard Keyhole Route, but veered off course when they followed the lights of headlamps of a group of climbers on the steep east face. The two ended up running into a Colorado Mountain School guide roping up at the bottom of the peak’s Diamond face and . The guide called for a rescue over his radio, and rangers used ropes to lower the men about 600 feet to safety. The two men were among on Tuesday, including a 27-year-old man who was carried out with a leg injury and a woman from Chicago who fell off a horse.
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