Man rescued at Badlands National Park

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INTERIOR, S.D. (AP) — Officials used a rope system to lift a 78-year-old man who had fallen more than 40 feet down a steep slope at Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota.

The park says the man fell down a slope into a hole Saturday morning about 10 a.m. about five miles from the park’s Ben Reifel Visitor Center.

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