{"id":1024388,"date":"2024-04-30T21:21:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T04:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/?p=1024388"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:03:32","slug":"california-climbers-buried-in-avalanche-at-12000-feet-carried-to-safety-after-daring-11-hour-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/2024\/04\/30\/california-scalatori-sepolti-in-valanga-a-12000-piedi-portati-in-sicurezza-dopo-aver-osato-11-ore-di-soccorso\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Snowboarders Survive a Mount Shasta Avalanche and Are Brought Off 12,200 Feet After an 11-Hour Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_97175\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xOwBlxaACj4?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Two climbers rescued after Mt. Shasta avalanche\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/xOwBlxaACj4\/maxresdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two experienced mountaineers trying to summit Mount Shasta and snowboard off it triggered a wind slab on the Avalanche Gulch route on April 27, 2024, near 13,000 feet, left of a feature called The Heart. One man rode the slide close to 1,000 vertical feet. The other self-arrested. Neither was buried. At 12:21 p.m. one of them called Siskiyou County dispatch from about 12,200 feet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1024435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1024435\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1024435\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/California-climbers-buried-in-avalanche-at-12000-feet-carried-to-safety-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rescuers staging for a Mount Shasta avalanche operation, covered by The AEGIS Alliance.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1024435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Search and rescue staged at the mountain after the Saturday slide. (Siskiyou County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wind and cloud kept the CHP helicopter from plucking them off the slope. The bird later dropped a team at treeline, about 3,500 vertical feet below. Forest Service climbing rangers, sheriff&#8217;s SAR, and volunteer guides walked up and reached the men around 6:20 p.m. One had a wrecked knee. The other had a broken femur and a crampon puncture, plus frostbite and hypothermia. The femur case was carried about 6,000 feet down in a four-hour litter haul to Bunny Flat. The other snowboarded out once the team was on him. Names were not released. The sheriff&#8217;s office said experience does not cancel a wind-loaded slope.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1024438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1024438\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1024438\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/California-climbers-buried-in-avalanche-at-12000-feet-carried-to-safety-4.jpg\" alt=\"Night litter carry on Mount Shasta after an avalanche, reported by The AEGIS Alliance.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1024438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The broken-femur patient came off the mountain in a litter. (Siskiyou County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1024436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1024436\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1024436\" src=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/California-climbers-buried-in-avalanche-at-12000-feet-carried-to-safety-1.jpg\" alt=\"Map of Avalanche Gulch on Mount Shasta used in The AEGIS Alliance rescue coverage.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1006\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1024436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting zone, debris, and patient location on Avalanche Gulch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For more from this desk, see The AEGIS Alliance&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/category\/news\/us-news\/\">US News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/2-snowboarders-caught-in-mt-shasta-avalanche-rescued-after-hours-long-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS Sacramento<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two experienced snowboarders triggered a wind slab on Mount Shasta&#8217;s Avalanche Gulch route. One broke a femur. An 11-hour ground rescue got them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":1024439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[208302,188009,213505,207491,207499,207143,205548],"class_list":["post-1024388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us-news","tag-avalanches","tag-california","tag-mount-shasta","tag-mountain-climbing","tag-rescues","tag-snowboarding","tag-us-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/California-climbers-buried-in-avalanche-at-12000-feet-carried-to-safety-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199540,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024388\/revisions\/1199540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}