Mountain hiker dies after rescue in snow, 80-mph wind gusts

Xi Chen was rescued from Gulfside Path on Saturday night time.
NH Fish and Sport Legislation Enforcement

LANCASTER, N.H. — A hiker who was affected by extreme hypothermia on a New Hampshire path close to Mt. Washington died at a hospital hours after rescuers confronted driving rain, blowing snow, and winds gusting to over 80 mph to achieve him, conservation officers mentioned.

The hiker was rescued from Gulfside Path on Saturday night time. Xi Chen, 53, of Andover, Massachusetts, was overcome by extreme climate situations.

Rescuers carried Xi Chen over a mile as much as the summit of Mt. Washington

NH Fish and Sport Legislation Enforcement

Fish and Sport Division officers mentioned they heard from his spouse, who mentioned she acquired a textual content from Chen saying he was chilly and moist and couldn’t proceed on. “He additional wrote that he felt he would die with out a rescue,” the division mentioned in a information launch.

Conservation officers acquired a number of rescue calls that day from hikers who had been on the high-elevation summits and ridgelines of the Presidential Vary.

“The situations within the excessive peaks had been treacherous,” the information launch mentioned.

Rescuers carried Chen over a mile as much as the summit of Mt. Washington, the place he was positioned on a truck and pushed down the mountain’s auto street, to a hospital in Berlin. He was unable to be revived after a number of hours of life-saving efforts, the information launch mentioned.