CHELAN COUNTY, Wash. -- A man drowned in a remote mountain lake in The Enchantments wilderness area on Sunday, according to Chelan County Sheriff's Office.

Around 7:15 p.m. on August 3, RiverCom received a satellite text alert about a 30-year-old man on the west side of Lake Colchuck who had been underwater for five minutes and was not breathing.

CCSO said the man was part of a hiking group and another hiking group stopped to assist with CPR.

Due to the remote location of the emergency, a helicopter with paramedics was dispatched, along with on-the-ground Chelan County Volunteer Search and Rescue crews.

The helicopter arrived around 8:45 p.m. and airlifted the man to the Leavenworth Fish Hatchery, where paramedics were standing by.

Despite the hikers performing CPR for over an hour wh

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