A rescue crew received a call at around 11:30 a.m., Dec 29, in San Bernardino, California. A hiker was reporting the fall of their 19-year-old friend, who had fallen 500 ft down the remote mountainside of Mount Baldy.
CNN reports that Mount Baldy rises more than 10,000 feet east of Los Angeles. Apparently, one of the hikers had to go up to an area where he could get cellular service so he could give the rescuers their exact GPS. As the rescue team headed up the mountain to pull out the young men, conditions gradually worsened.
