A rescue helicopter slipped through bad weather late Friday and plucked one of four seriously injured climbers from Mount McKinley. The rest remained high on the peak in bitter cold.
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Three British climbers fell 300 feet Thursday evening and two Americans fell nearly 3,000 feet the next morning, National Park Service spokeswoman Jane Tranel said.Jeff Munroe, 25, of Anchorage, who was unconscious and in critical but stable condition with a head injury, was rescued from a camp at 14,000 feet and flown to the nearby town of Kantishna.