Six hikers trapped at around 9,000 feet on Mt. Baldy were airlifted to safety Wednesday, authorities announced. The group of hikers, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, got stuck on Bear Canyon Trail due to snow and were unable to continue. Video of the rescue posted to X, formerly Twitter, shows several people […]
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Search for El Monte woman who went hiking alone ends in heartbreak in Mt. Baldy area
Crews searching for a hiker, who went missing a week ago, recovered her body over the weekend from a snow-covered Mt. Baldy in the San Gabriel Mountains. The body of hiker Lifei Huang, 22, of El Monte was discovered on Saturday, Feb. 10 in the upper San Antonio Creek Falls area after she began her […]
Drone spots body of 22-year-old hiker week after she vanished on Mount Baldy, cops say
A person flying a drone spotted the body of a missing 22-year-old hiker on a California mountain about a week after she disappeared, rescuers said. The citizen reported their discovery on Mount Baldy to authorities Feb. 10, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. Weather conditions prevented rescuers from hiking to […]
Body of missing Mt. Baldy hiker recovered
The body of a hiker who went missing on Mount Baldy was recovered Sunday morning, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Lifei Huang, 22, from El Monte was last seen alive on Feb. 4, when she went out on a solo hike at around 2 p.m. that day. Crews searched the area throughout […]