Hiker rescued after falling more than 100 feet and lying stranded for hours

A Salt Lake City Fire Department crew rescued a man Sunday who fell more than 100 feet to a cliff ledge and was stranded there for hours.Fire Capt. Tony Stowe said the 29-year-old man was hiking near 1000 N. Victory Springs Road, close to a Salt Lake City industrial area west of Ensign Peak, when he tumbled down the mountain and came to a stop just before the cliff edge. The man lost his phone during the fall and couldn’t call for help, stranding him for more than five hours on the mountai