A hiker seriously injured after a fall had to be rescued off one of California's highest peaks over the weekend.

The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office says, on Aug. 16, they got a 911 call from a hiker at Mt. Shasta reporting that his climbing partner was missing. The pair had summited the mountain earlier in the morning but got disoriented around the 11,000' mark while coming back down.

One of the hikers got back to their base camp and waited an hour, but the other hiker did not show – prompting the 911 call.

Siskiyou County Sheriff Search and Rescue and the Mount Shasta Avalanche Center & Home of the Climbing Rangers mobilized search crews, but inclement weather stopped air support from deploying that first day.

Temperatures dropped, plus rain and snow moved in on the 14,179' peak, fo

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