SALT LAKE CITY — A 37-year-old man was rescued in American Fork Canyon after he was accidentally knocked off a 40-50 foot cliff above Little Mill Campground on Wednesday evening.

According to Utah County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Sgt. Zac Robinson, the man was packing up some of his things on the cliff with two other climbers when a third pushed off the wall harder than intended, bumping the man and knocking him off the ledge.

Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Mike Alexander said a Department of Public Safety helicopter was required to assist with the rescue.

Robinson said it required a team of more than two dozen individuals on the ground to secure him and bring him safely to an extraction point, 24 from the Utah County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue, and two from Lone Peak Fire.

The man was ho

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