A 70-year-old Oregon hunter who was rescued after hanging upside-down for two days 30 feet above the ground is in intensive care in a drug-induced coma.

Eddie Voelker, of Prineville, was on a ventilator and has had a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain.

He was reportedly “hollering” for help when two hunters found him. The father-and-son hunters heard Voelker yelling from a mile away and spent 1-1/2 hours searching for him because they were not looking up.

A rescue crew used a bucket truck to reach him and his heart stopped during the rescue. Voelker was flown to a hospital in Richland, Washington, where he remains in critical condition.

His family returned to the site to get his hunting dogs, which had remained with him through the ordeal.