A 58-year-old man hiking in Maine’s Acadia National Park was airlifted off a mountain after having a medical emergency, officials said. On Wednesday at 8 a.m., park rangers received a report of a man experiencing a “serious medical event” while hiking the Beehive Trail, National Park Service officials said in a statement.

the rescue team requested assistance from the Maine Forest Service to evacuate the patient by helicopter. The helicopter conducted a short-haul operation to transfer the man to a field near Sand Beach. A Bar Harbor Fire Department ambulance met the ...

The National Park Service said the man was experiencing a "serious medical event" halfway up the nearly-vertical section of the trail.

A man was rescued from Acadia National Park trail Wednesday morning. According to park officials, rangers responded to a report of 58-year-old man experiencing a medical event on the top of Beehive Trail around 8 a.