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Stuck on Sarkofagen: Two hikers rescued by helicopter after getting trapped on peak

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Two hikers trapped at the top of Sarkofagen just to the south of Longyearbyen were rescued by helicopter Tuesday afternoon, according to The Governor of Svalbard.

“They have gotten themselves stuck and cannot go up or down,” Police Chief Lt. Anders Haugerud told Svalbardposten.

A rescue helicopter was deployed to the mountaintop at about 2:30 p.m. when the hikers reported they were unable to climb up or down. The hikers are reportedly adequately clothed and not in danger.

The helicopter departed the mountain at about 3 p.m.

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.
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