{"id":85898,"date":"2025-12-31T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85898\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:33:09","slug":"seal-beach-teen-among-hikers-found-dead-on-mt-baldy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85898\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal Beach teen among hikers found dead on Mt. Baldy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 19-year-old who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/30\/us-news\/3-hikers-confirmed-dead-after-going-missing-on-mt-baldy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died on a gusty Mount Baldy after falling hundreds of feet during a hike<\/a>\u00a0was identified Wednesday as a Bay Area college student.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Clara University freshman Marcus Alexander Casanova, originally from Orange County, was hiking with a buddy Monday when he plunged 500 feet near \u201cDevil\u2019s Backbone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38063792\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1760507109623.jpeg\" alt=\"Headshot of a young man with curly brown hair, smiling in a suit and tie.\" class=\"wp-image-38063792\"  \/>The Seal Beach native couldn\u2019t be airlifted Monday after falling while hiking Mount Baldy<\/p>\n<p>Casanova\u2019s friend called for help, prompting a rescue mission by the San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department and Los Angeles County, who located the hiker by helicopter along with two other dead people on the trail, who have not yet been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Blistery high winds made it impossible for rescuers to lift Casanova from the mountain, and instead an air medic was hoisted down, who confirmed that all three people were deceased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 19-year-old who\u00a0died on a gusty Mount Baldy after falling hundreds of feet during a hike\u00a0was identified Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2136,29796,1016,41744,9,11,10,779,8555,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-85898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-hiking","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-mountain-climbing","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-orange-county","16":"tag-snow","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}