A 60-year-old hiker stood for seven hours on a 1-by-3-foot ice-covered ledge on an Adirondack mountain after dropping his crampons, unsure whether his emergency beacon had worked.Eric Le Bourhis was climbing near the Mount Colden Trap Dike on Oct. 21 when he became stranded on an icy slide, accordin g to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. ...read more read less