NEW: Four climbers rescued after being stranded on Mount Rainier in Washington state for days.
Mount Rainier National Park rangers were informed on Monday that the climbers were stranded on Liberty Ridge, which is known as a uniquely steep and challenging climb, but bad weather prevented helicopter and on-the-ground rescue attempts until Thursday morning.
"It's a place that is on a narrow ridge that goes up the north side of the mountain -- very, very steep, very technical in terms of climbing ability, which is why very few people climb the mountain by this route," Bacher told ABC News in late May, before this rescue operation began."But [it's] also why it is so popular among the climbers who have the skills necessary to tackle the challenge.
A helicopter located the climbers again on Tuesday, and they'd only been able to descend 250 feet, and a significant distance from the dropped supplies, to a"more sheltered, but still precarious, position," according to the release.
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