China News Agency, San Francisco, June 7. According to the news from the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office in Northern California on the 7th, four mountaineering accidents occurred in the local Shasta Mountain within 24 hours, killing one person and injuring five others.
The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office released a message on social platforms on the 7th that the agency coordinated a total of 4 rescue efforts in the Avalanche Canyon area of Mount Shasta on the 6th and 7th, and multiple agencies participated.
According to the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office, two climbers and a mountain guide were climbing Mount Shasta on the morning of the 6th when one of the climbers lost his footing, causing all three tied together to fall. .
Gillian Elizabeth Webster, a 32-year-old guide from Oregon, was unresponsive after a fall and was administered CPR by a nurse who was climbing nearby.
Webster was then helicoptered to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
In the accident, a male climber suffered an open calf fracture and head trauma, in critical condition, and a female calf fractured.
Both were taken to a nearby hospital by helicopter for treatment.
At noon and afternoon on the 6th, two more accidents occurred in the area, and a male and a female climber were injured and taken to the hospital by helicopter.
NBC reported that the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office said on the 6th that two of the injured climbers were in critical condition in the three accidents that occurred that day.
On the morning of the 7th, the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office coordinated the rescue of an injured climber in the Avalanche Canyon area of Mount Shasta.
According to the agency, this is the fourth mountaineering accident reported in the same area in 24 hours.
A spokesman for the agency said the climber suffered a leg injury and was taken to a local hospital by helicopter.
The ABC reports that Mount Shasta is a dormant volcano with an elevation of nearly 4,322 meters, the second highest peak in the Cascade Range.
Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue said on the 7th that although it is "prime time" for climbing, people need to stay away from the area until officials can better assess the weather and other conditions.
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