Up in the mountains, helicopters flown by the National Guard skimmed over ravaged roads to pluck scores of stranded residents from the flooded town of Jamestown.
He hired guides to take people down the mountains, helicopters to take them up, cooks to feed them, massage therapists to knead and stretch their weary muscles, and a staff to cater to their every need.
According to their report they removed Wagner from the mountain by helicopter and met up with a medical helicopter that took him to a hospital.
He had been evacuated off the world's highest mountain by helicopter.
She was later airlifted from the mountain via helicopter and taken to a Whistler medical facility, from which she was later released.
One of these is by a fairly abrupt reduction in atmospheric oxygen pressure, as would occur in one's being deposited atop a mountain by helicopter.
Carried off the mountain by helicopter, afraid her back was broken and her career was over, Vonn instead walked out of the hospital a day later.
Mountain rescue helicopters had to call off a search because of the weather and the search was resumed on foot.
It was called that for the most prosaic of reasons: the International Mining Company had mined the area, accessing the mountains by helicopter back in the 1950s.
Until I see a team of St John Ambulance volunteers competitively pumping on a lung dummy, or a five-strong squad of surgeons rapidly peeling a melon with a scalpel, or mountain rescue helicopters jousting in the skies over the sharp and brutal rocks below, lifesaving should not be a sport.
We had been spoiled before, of course, with Brian Cox's epic "Wonders" series in which the pop star-turned-physicist stood atop mountains while helicopters swirled overhead.
