Rescuers on Wednesday morning airlifted a hiker from a trail in Acadia National Park.
Park rangers responded at about 8 a.m. to a report of a 58-year-old man having a serious medical event on the Beehive Trail, the National Park Service said in a news release.
Park rangers coordinated with MDI Search and Rescue to assemble a rescue team of 16 people who staged at the trailhead along the Park Loop Road.
Ultimately the Maine Forest Service used a helicopter to collect the man from about halfway up a nearly vertical section of the 1.5 mile trail, which goes over the Beehive, a roughly 500-foot mountain.
The man, who has not been identified, was delivered by helicopter to Sand Beach then brought by ambulance to Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor. The Park Service did not report his current condition.
The trail was closed for about an hour during the rescue operation, according to the Park Service.
