- The hiker, however, suffering from severe hypothermia on a New Hampshire trail near Mt. Washington.
- Rescuers battled driving rain, blowing snow, and winds gusting to 80 mph to reach him.
A hiker suffering from severe hypothermia on a New Hampshire trail near Mt. Washington died at a hospital hours after rescuers battled driving rain, blowing snow, and winds gusting to over 80 mph to reach him.
On Saturday night, the hiker was rescued from the Gulfside Trail. Xi Chen of Andover, Massachusetts. He killed in severe weather.
Officers with the Fish and Game Department said they spoke with his wife, who said she received a text from Chen saying he was cold and wet and couldn’t continue. “He also wrote that he felt he would die if there was no rescue,” the department said in a news release.
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That day, conservation officers responded to numerous rescue calls from hikers on the Presidential Range’s high-elevation summits and ridgelines.
“The conditions in the high peaks were treacherous,” according to the news release.
Rescuers carried Chen a mile up to Mt. Washington’s summit, where he loaded onto a truck and driven down the mountain’s auto road to a hospital in Berlin.
