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A 61-year-old man was airlifted from the Carter Mountain area on Monday afternoon, after he suffered an injury while hunting.
Walter Zimbelman of Fullerton, North Dakota, was field dressing an elk …
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A 61-year-old man was airlifted from the Carter Mountain area on Monday afternoon, after he suffered an injury while hunting.
Walter Zimbelman of Fullerton, North Dakota, was field dressing an elk with two other people when he reportedly rolled over onto a knife. The blade went into Zimbelman’s leg just below the knee.
“He was conscious and alert but had lost all feeling in his leg,” the Park County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Zimbelman called the sheriff’s office at 2:30 p.m. A Park County Search and Rescue ground team was deployed in the Rose Creek area a half-hour later, aboard a side-by-side vehicle.
They were accompanied by a wilderness medical team from Cody Regional Health and an officer from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department who happened to be in the area; a medical helicopter from Guardian Flight in Cody was also dispatched.
At 3:34 p.m., the Guardian Flight crew located Zimbelman and landed nearby. The rescue personnel reached the area at 4:20 p.m., the sheriff’s office, and the chopper was able to leave 10 minutes later.
Zimbelman was taken to St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings for treatment. The sheriff’s office said it did not know his condition on Tuesday.
