Firefighters Lift 700-Pound Boulder to Rescue Man Pinned Face-Down in Frigid Alaska Creek

Firefighters Lift 700-Pound Boulder to Rescue Man Pinned Face-Down in Frigid Alaska Creek

Firefighters Lift 700-Pound Boulder to Rescue Man Pinned Face-Down in Frigid Alaska Creek Rescue of Kell Morris (in brown hat) Credit: Jason Harrington / Seward Fire Department – released Rescuers described it as an avalanche of boulders—and Kell Morris was lucky to have survived it. The 61-year-old was hiking with his wife in the Alaskan wilderness south of Anchorage last month, when a single step sent a succession of rocks crashing down the terrain. Morris fell with them and, when he landed, he was pinned face down in an icy creek by a 700-pound boulder. “It all came loose… and I was sliding with it,” Morris told KTUU News in Alaska. “Then it was a blur. I went tumbling. ” “I could hear the noise that large rocks make as they’re rolling over each other. I landed face-down in the river, and then I felt the rock hit me in the back and pin me down.” Morris’s left leg and hip were pinned tightly to the rocks, but his shoulders were still above the frigid water. Other rocks kept him from gettin…