Mountain biker rescued hanging head-first off a cliff on Mt. Wilson in Angeles National Forest
Print A mountain biker who fell off the side of a cliff in the Mt. Wilson area on Thursday morning dangled face down hundreds of feet off the ground before the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department managed to pull off a daring rescue. Somehow the biker, described as an older man, wound up hanging upside down 30 feet below the side of a toll road in the Angeles National Forest above Altadena, authorities said. Only a thin cord around his ankle — tied to a bicycle his brother was sitting on — tethered him to the ground above. He was hanging on for dear life, “like a cat,” when res...