The experience of a hiker from Italy who was stranded in the San Diego County mountains for three days and rescued by helicopter has been chronicled by the San Diego Sheriff’s Department in a new video.
On Jan. 19, the unidentified man from Italy took to the Jacumba Mountains from the Goat Canyon Trestle trailhead deep in East County, north of the Mexican border. He was reported missing on Jan. 21.
The next day, the sheriff’s ASTREA helicopter unit located and retrieved the man from an area near Carrizo Gorge, according to the video released by the department. The man could be seen in the video walking with emergency personnel.
First responders learned that the man got lost, and had taken shelter in nearby decommissioned rail tunnels. The hiker told his rescuers that he found water in small pools at the bottom of the gorge.
