A young San Jose man who summitted Mount Shasta last week survived a roughly 500-foot slide down the Northern California peak during his descent and managed to crawl to safety through the night, according to officials.<\/p>\n
The unidentified climber summitted the 14,179-foot mountain via the Avalanche Gulch route at about 7:30 p.m. last Thursday, but his cellphone died shortly thereafter, according to the Siskiyou County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The climber’s friends started to worry when they couldn’t reach him on Friday and reported him missing to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n
Search and rescue teams launched a search operation at about 2 p.m. Friday, the sheriff’s office said. Roughly two hours later, a hiker walked into a cabin on the mountain, spotted the missing climber and notified authorities.<\/p>\n
The climber told the search and rescue teams that he tried to glissade, or slide, down the mountain after summitting, but he lost control and slid roughly 500 feet. During the fall, he suffered numerous injuries, including several significant lacerations and damage to his feet. Painful swelling forced him to take off his boots and crawl down the remainder of Avalanche Gulch to the cabin through the night, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n
The climber was eventually airlifted from the cabin to a nearby hospital to be treated, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young San Jose man who summitted Mount Shasta last week survived a roughly 500-foot slide down the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-464731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}