College Football Team Works Together To Heroically Rescue Helpless Woman Hanging From Cliff

Aug 24, 2020

In Saint George, Utah, a young woman decided to test her skills mountaineering by rappelling the cliffs of Sugarloaf Mountain. Terrifyingly, her long hair became tangled up in her climbing gear. She quickly realized that she was trapped midway down the cliff, perilously close to falling down the mountainside to her doom.

Thanks to a college football team from Dixie State University who happened to be at the mountain for fall training, the woman was pulled to safety with the help of the young men.

She was with a man that day who decided to accompany her on her mountaineering adventure, and he shouted loudly and repeatedly for help. The unique situation she was in demanded a lot of manpower; the position of her body and the weight of her gear was just too much for one rescuer alone to handle.

With uncanny luck, the man’s shouts were rewarded. As it turns out, the entire college football team of Dixie State University was in the vicinity. The team would visit the Red Rocks every single year during their fall football training. Acting as a team of true heroes, the group leaped into action in order to save the woman from a grizzly fate.

Traffic was passing below, and there was little that could be done by the woman alone. The sheer ledge of the cliff was too much for her to climb up; it was going to be one-way down without significant help from the team. The gal had been hanging with her hair tangled for over 45 minutes, which must have been testing her patience but also her pain tolerance.

The agonized woman shouted, “My hair! My hair!” multiple times throughout the ordeal. The man helping her would try to pull on the rope slower and addressed the men helping him to do the same.

There were at least 20 men who were helping to buoy the forsaken climber, each behind the other. Some were wearing masks, as this was still during the peak of the coronavirus crisis in the United States. An Arizona police commander, not using any safety gear, was the closest to the woman and rested right on the ledge of the cliff before utilizing his legs to pull her up with the football team. Once the woman was rescued, they gave her water. She was dehydrated and embarrassed by the whole ordeal, at first reluctant to even give her rescuers more than her first name.

Afterward, the group got together on Zoom in order to discuss the events. Since they play a team sport, they believed that rescuing the woman from certain doom was not only a good deed and morale booster but also something that truly allowed the team to better coalesce together for the next football game. Although the college football season is currently under suspension, everyone was happy that they were able to put their teamwork skills to good use to help out a human in need.

Have you or anyone you know ever been stuck in a pickle such as this one? What was the situation like, and how was it resolved? We want to hear all about it! Then be sure to pass on this heroic story to all of your friends.