CNN —A hiker who was unprepared for conditions at over 13,000 feet up in the Colorado Rockies was rescued when searchers followed footprints in freshly fallen snow to find them “alive but very hypothermic,” rescuers said.
“When inclement weather moved in the hiker found themself unprepared; out of water, with no food, wearing only a cotton hoodie and no way to warm themselves,” Chaffee County Search and Rescue North said in a news release.
About 25 search and rescue team members deployed to search for the hiker as a severe snowstorm blew in, according to the news release.
“This team continued to follow the footprints until they came upon an unusual looking rock” at approximately 2 a.m., the release said.
sChaffee County is in central Colorado on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains near the Continental Divide.
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