Hiker saved after fall from Great Wall

Firemen saved a hiker who had fallen off the Jiankou section of the Great Wall in Beijing, the newspaper Mirror Evening News reported on Sunday.

The hiker is from East China's Shandong province; she arrived at the Jiankou section at 5 am with another 30 hikers and started hiking, according to the report.

At about 8 am, she slipped at the steepest spot on that part of the wall and fell on two hikers who were climbing below. The hiker suffered injuries to her head, shoulder and wrist, and couldn't move after the fall.

After bandaging her wounds, putting her on a stretcher and carrying her down the Great Wall for a while, firemen who had come to her rescue found the path they were on to be too steep and narrow for all of them to progress along it further. So they used a rope to lower her down the 8 meters that separated them from a flat road, the report said.

The injured hiker was carried safely down the hill at about 12:30 pm. Except for a few hikers who remained at the accident scene to help their injured fellow traveler, the rest of the people in the group have returned to Shandong, the report said.

Jiankou is the name given to an undeveloped section Great Wall in Beijing's Huairou district. It is famous for its grand view and steepness.