A 22-year-old went hiking alone in California. Her body was found 8 days later
globalnews.caMount Baldy to find the missing woman.Search and rescue workers and volunteers battled through heavy snowfall and were hampered by avalanche risks in their attempts to find Lifei Huang. In the end, it was a civilian flying a drone who spotted her eight days after she went missing, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department wrote in a press release.Huang set off for a solo hike in the Mount Baldy area of the San Gabriel Mountains on Feb.
4, just before an “atmospheric river” storm battered southern California. The storm brought heavy rainfall and near-hurricane-force wind gusts to the Los Angeles area that damaged homes and knocked out power for some 530,000 homes and businesses across the state.By Feb.
5, the morning after Huang left for her hike, some 40 million people were under flood, winter storm and high wind advisories, according to the National Weather Service.Police were first alerted that Huang was missing after a 911 call came in just before midnight on Feb. 4.
Huang had begun the hike at 2 p.m. local time that day and had not been heard from since around 4 p.m.Members of the Sheriff’s West Valley Search and Rescue Crew were assembled and they arrived at Mount Baldy at around 2:30 a.m.
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