Hiker Rescued After Accepting Marriage Proposal

Caught on Tape: Hiker Rescued After Accepting Marriage Proposal

CABIN JOHN, Md. - It began as a romantic hike, and ended with a helicopter rescue after one of the hikers fell and was injured, just moments after she accepted a marriage proposal.

The unidentified couple was hiking the Billy Goat Trail along the Potomac River Sunday went something went right, then wrong.

"In that area, although beautiful, it can be very dangerous," said Montgomery Co. Fire & Rescue Captain Derrell Walker.

It was also apparently a beautiful place for an engagement.

"And the story is he proposed to her just prior to her falling," Captain Walker said.

We're told after she said, 'Yes', she lost her footing and fell onto a large, jagged rock.
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