The number of hiker rescues in Yosemite far exceeds the climber rescues.
Probably because the number of hikers far exceeds the number of climbers -- just a guess.
CaT
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)
