Overview

• Kell Morris, 61, slipped down a 20-foot embankment and landed face-down in a creek near Godwin Glacier before a 700-pound boulder pinned him for three hours
• His wife, retired Alaska State Trooper Jo Roop, held his head above frigid water and walked 300 yards to secure a cellphone signal with exact GPS coordinates
• A Bear Creek Volunteer Fire Department member working for Seward Helicopter Tours overheard the 911 call and diverted a tour helicopter, shaving about 45 minutes off the response
• Once on site, seven rescuers employed inflatable airbags and brute force to lift the boulder, freeing a hypothermic, intermittently unconscious Morris
• Following two nights under observation for hypothermia and minor injuries at a Seward hospital, Morris was discharged with no life-threatening trauma