An injured hiker was heard yelling for help for about 45 minutes from a steep and dangerous mountain pass in Washington, deputies said.

Someone heard the person at 6:12 p.m. Aug. 11 from Colchuck Lake and sent a text to 911, the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

The yelling appeared to be coming from Aasgard Pass, which is above the lake, deputies said, and it went on until about 7 p.m.

Rescue teams reached the top of the mountain pass at about 11 p.m., and then went back down looking for the hiker, deputies said.

They found the 21-year-old from SeaTac about 900 feet up from Colchuck Lake, near the base of Dragontail Peak, deputies said.

He went up the mountain pass from the wrong area, deputies said. Then he injured his ankle and couldn’t make it down on his ow

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